Mrs. Dorothy Dix Mizell Jones, 90, died Wednesday night (February 28, 2018) at Hospice House Satilla after an extended illness.
She was born July 11, 1927 in Brantley County to the late James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell. She was #9 in a close-knit and loving family of 10 children, the youngest of 7 sisters.
As a child, after her parents moved to Waycross from Brantley County, she started school at Gilchrist Park Elementary and continued to attend Waycross Public Schools through the 7th grade. After she completed the 7th grade at the Waycross Junior High School downtown, her family moved to Folkston for several years. There she attended Charlton County High School, from which she graduated in 1945. While there she played basketball and participated in the choral program. She was a member of the Acappella Girls’ Quartet who won a state championship. When her family returned to Waycross in January of her senior year, Dorothy stayed on in Folkston with her oldest sister, Leila, until the day of her graduation, returning home to Waycross immediately after the ceremony. From that time, she has been a member of the Waycross community.
On June 30, 1948, she was married to the late Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr. of Waycross, a World War II veteran. She was employed by Swisher and Sons of Waycross for 21 years.
Mrs. Jones’ life was marked by her out-going personality and her personal love for people. “She never met a stranger” was often noted about her. Her captivating smile, her genuine concern, her giving heart, her gift of hospitality, and her Christian life have left deep impressions and lasting influence on many lives.
Though she was known for her love of children - “anybody’s and everybody’s children,” she was heard to say - she was not given her own children, but her mother heart was not left empty. In the absence of birth-children, the Lord brought great joy to the Joneses through their “chosen children,” all of whom came from afar as God brought them to Waycross and into the “made-up Georgia family” as young adults:
Miss Sylvia Evans, of Lima, New York, moved to Waycross as a teacher in 1965 at Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ invitation after meeting at a convention at Grace Chapel in Waycross. In 1975, she and a group of friends founded Creative Word Ministries, the channel through which she and a team of co-workers have continued to travel in missions and ministry.
Miss Janice Hill, from Michigan, who came to Waycross as a social worker with the Ware County Schools in 1975, and since retirement from the school system has served with Hospice Satilla, where she is presently the Coordinator of Volunteers.
Mr. and Mrs. Vien Luu, a Chinese couple who came as refugees from Vietnam at the fall of Saigon, also in 1975, and were “adopted” into the Jones family. Their son, Bobby Luu, became the Joneses’ “chosen grandson.”
In addition, there are numerous “honorary children and grandchildren” who look to Mrs. Jones as a special “mom,” “mama” or “grandmother,” though not by birth, and she has come to be known as “Mama Jones” or “Mama J” to many other people through her involvement in the lives and ministries of her “chosen” and “honorary” children.
She also has been greatly beloved and honored by her many nieces and nephews of three or four generations, for whom she has personally expressed great care and love. To them she is lovingly known as “Aunt Dot” or “Aunt Dorothy.”
All her life, music was a mark of her life. At a young age her love for music included both singing and playing the piano, with a special gift for playing Christian music “by ear.” As a child, she had been taught the scale by a neighbor lady, Rose Fairlee, a missionary who came to Waycross to found the El Bethel Church. She had invited little Dorothy to come to her home to play her piano. Ms. Fairlee had felt the Lord wanted her to teach young Dorothy what she knew of music, for which Dorothy was always grateful. Beyond her own delight in music, over the years, Dorothy’s gift developed into a significant ministry that touched many lives. As a Charter Member of Grace Chapel, she was the pianist and music coordinator for 39 years for the church and, for many years, for their weekly radio broadcast over WAYX. She also was accompanist for “The Chapelaires,” Grace Chapel’s youth choir, led by Sylvia Evans, as they sang weekly at Grace Chapel and also traveled out to sing for many occasions around South Georgia. Mrs. Jones and Miss Evans also were frequently invited to sing for churches and community programs.
For 10 years, Mrs. Jones also played for an early Sunday morning service at Young Chapel in Emerson Park, an extension of First Presbyterian Church of Waycross. She also was always “a cheerful giver” when she was invited to play for “Gospel sings” and special services in other churches and the community. In her later years, before illness began to limit her activity, she devotedly brought her music to Baptist Village for two-and-a-half years, bringing the residents joy as they joined in singing hymns or requesting she play favorite songs.
Throughout her life, her special delight was to nurture others’ gifts of music, whether children, youth, or adults, and to see them grow in the expression of their giftings.
She was preceded in death by her parents, James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell; her husband, Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr.; six sisters, Leila Aldridge (Eugene), Mary Aldridge (Neil), Daisy Whaley (Hendrix), Edna Hagin (Everett), Lottie Freeman (Eugene), and Alice Chancey (M.J.); and three brothers, Thomas Mizell (Myrtice), Owen Mizell and Ernest Mizell.
Survivors include one sister-in-law, Nell Mizell (widow of Ernest Mizell); one brother-in-law, Ted Jones (wife Dorothy); and many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren
A funeral service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday (March 3, 2018) at the Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will follow in Oakland Cemetery. The family will receive friends 1:45 until 2:45 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions can be made to Creative Word Ministries, P.O. Box 551, Lima, NY 14485, or Hospice Satilla, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross 31501.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
She was born July 11, 1927 in Brantley County to the late James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell. She was #9 in a close-knit and loving family of 10 children, the youngest of 7 sisters.
As a child, after her parents moved to Waycross from Brantley County, she started school at Gilchrist Park Elementary and continued to attend Waycross Public Schools through the 7th grade. After she completed the 7th grade at the Waycross Junior High School downtown, her family moved to Folkston for several years. There she attended Charlton County High School, from which she graduated in 1945. While there she played basketball and participated in the choral program. She was a member of the Acappella Girls’ Quartet who won a state championship. When her family returned to Waycross in January of her senior year, Dorothy stayed on in Folkston with her oldest sister, Leila, until the day of her graduation, returning home to Waycross immediately after the ceremony. From that time, she has been a member of the Waycross community.
On June 30, 1948, she was married to the late Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr. of Waycross, a World War II veteran. She was employed by Swisher and Sons of Waycross for 21 years.
Mrs. Jones’ life was marked by her out-going personality and her personal love for people. “She never met a stranger” was often noted about her. Her captivating smile, her genuine concern, her giving heart, her gift of hospitality, and her Christian life have left deep impressions and lasting influence on many lives.
Though she was known for her love of children - “anybody’s and everybody’s children,” she was heard to say - she was not given her own children, but her mother heart was not left empty. In the absence of birth-children, the Lord brought great joy to the Joneses through their “chosen children,” all of whom came from afar as God brought them to Waycross and into the “made-up Georgia family” as young adults:
Miss Sylvia Evans, of Lima, New York, moved to Waycross as a teacher in 1965 at Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ invitation after meeting at a convention at Grace Chapel in Waycross. In 1975, she and a group of friends founded Creative Word Ministries, the channel through which she and a team of co-workers have continued to travel in missions and ministry.
Miss Janice Hill, from Michigan, who came to Waycross as a social worker with the Ware County Schools in 1975, and since retirement from the school system has served with Hospice Satilla, where she is presently the Coordinator of Volunteers.
Mr. and Mrs. Vien Luu, a Chinese couple who came as refugees from Vietnam at the fall of Saigon, also in 1975, and were “adopted” into the Jones family. Their son, Bobby Luu, became the Joneses’ “chosen grandson.”
In addition, there are numerous “honorary children and grandchildren” who look to Mrs. Jones as a special “mom,” “mama” or “grandmother,” though not by birth, and she has come to be known as “Mama Jones” or “Mama J” to many other people through her involvement in the lives and ministries of her “chosen” and “honorary” children.
She also has been greatly beloved and honored by her many nieces and nephews of three or four generations, for whom she has personally expressed great care and love. To them she is lovingly known as “Aunt Dot” or “Aunt Dorothy.”
All her life, music was a mark of her life. At a young age her love for music included both singing and playing the piano, with a special gift for playing Christian music “by ear.” As a child, she had been taught the scale by a neighbor lady, Rose Fairlee, a missionary who came to Waycross to found the El Bethel Church. She had invited little Dorothy to come to her home to play her piano. Ms. Fairlee had felt the Lord wanted her to teach young Dorothy what she knew of music, for which Dorothy was always grateful. Beyond her own delight in music, over the years, Dorothy’s gift developed into a significant ministry that touched many lives. As a Charter Member of Grace Chapel, she was the pianist and music coordinator for 39 years for the church and, for many years, for their weekly radio broadcast over WAYX. She also was accompanist for “The Chapelaires,” Grace Chapel’s youth choir, led by Sylvia Evans, as they sang weekly at Grace Chapel and also traveled out to sing for many occasions around South Georgia. Mrs. Jones and Miss Evans also were frequently invited to sing for churches and community programs.
For 10 years, Mrs. Jones also played for an early Sunday morning service at Young Chapel in Emerson Park, an extension of First Presbyterian Church of Waycross. She also was always “a cheerful giver” when she was invited to play for “Gospel sings” and special services in other churches and the community. In her later years, before illness began to limit her activity, she devotedly brought her music to Baptist Village for two-and-a-half years, bringing the residents joy as they joined in singing hymns or requesting she play favorite songs.
Throughout her life, her special delight was to nurture others’ gifts of music, whether children, youth, or adults, and to see them grow in the expression of their giftings.
She was preceded in death by her parents, James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell; her husband, Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr.; six sisters, Leila Aldridge (Eugene), Mary Aldridge (Neil), Daisy Whaley (Hendrix), Edna Hagin (Everett), Lottie Freeman (Eugene), and Alice Chancey (M.J.); and three brothers, Thomas Mizell (Myrtice), Owen Mizell and Ernest Mizell.
Survivors include one sister-in-law, Nell Mizell (widow of Ernest Mizell); one brother-in-law, Ted Jones (wife Dorothy); and many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren
A funeral service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday (March 3, 2018) at the Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will follow in Oakland Cemetery. The family will receive friends 1:45 until 2:45 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions can be made to Creative Word Ministries, P.O. Box 551, Lima, NY 14485, or Hospice Satilla, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross 31501.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Dorothy Dix Mizell Jones, 90, died Wednesday night (February 28, 2018) at Hospice House Satilla after an extended illness.
She was born July 11, 1927 in Brantley County to the late James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell. She was #9 in a close-knit and loving family of 10 children, the youngest of 7 sisters.
As a child, after her parents moved to Waycross from Brantley County, she started school at Gilchrist Park Elementary and continued to attend Waycross Public Schools through the 7th grade. After she completed the 7th grade at the Waycross Junior High School downtown, her family moved to Folkston for several years. There she attended Charlton County High School, from which she graduated in 1945. While there she played basketball and participated in the choral program. She was a member of the Acappella Girls’ Quartet who won a state championship. When her family returned to Waycross in January of her senior year, Dorothy stayed on in Folkston with her oldest sister, Leila, until the day of her graduation, returning home to Waycross immediately after the ceremony. From that time, she has been a member of the Waycross community.
On June 30, 1948, she was married to the late Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr. of Waycross, a World War II veteran. She was employed by Swisher and Sons of Waycross for 21 years.
Mrs. Jones’ life was marked by her out-going personality and her personal love for people. “She never met a stranger” was often noted about her. Her captivating smile, her genuine concern, her giving heart, her gift of hospitality, and her Christian life have left deep impressions and lasting influence on many lives.
Though she was known for her love of children - “anybody’s and everybody’s children,” she was heard to say - she was not given her own children, but her mother heart was not left empty. In the absence of birth-children, the Lord brought great joy to the Joneses through their “chosen children,” all of whom came from afar as God brought them to Waycross and into the “made-up Georgia family” as young adults:
Miss Sylvia Evans, of Lima, New York, moved to Waycross as a teacher in 1965 at Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ invitation after meeting at a convention at Grace Chapel in Waycross. In 1975, she and a group of friends founded Creative Word Ministries, the channel through which she and a team of co-workers have continued to travel in missions and ministry.
Miss Janice Hill, from Michigan, who came to Waycross as a social worker with the Ware County Schools in 1975, and since retirement from the school system has served with Hospice Satilla, where she is presently the Coordinator of Volunteers.
Mr. and Mrs. Vien Luu, a Chinese couple who came as refugees from Vietnam at the fall of Saigon, also in 1975, and were “adopted” into the Jones family. Their son, Bobby Luu, became the Joneses’ “chosen grandson.”
In addition, there are numerous “honorary children and grandchildren” who look to Mrs. Jones as a special “mom,” “mama” or “grandmother,” though not by birth, and she has come to be known as “Mama Jones” or “Mama J” to many other people through her involvement in the lives and ministries of her “chosen” and “honorary” children.
She also has been greatly beloved and honored by her many nieces and nephews of three or four generations, for whom she has personally expressed great care and love. To them she is lovingly known as “Aunt Dot” or “Aunt Dorothy.”
All her life, music was a mark of her life. At a young age her love for music included both singing and playing the piano, with a special gift for playing Christian music “by ear.” As a child, she had been taught the scale by a neighbor lady, Rose Fairlee, a missionary who came to Waycross to found the El Bethel Church. She had invited little Dorothy to come to her home to play her piano. Ms. Fairlee had felt the Lord wanted her to teach young Dorothy what she knew of music, for which Dorothy was always grateful. Beyond her own delight in music, over the years, Dorothy’s gift developed into a significant ministry that touched many lives. As a Charter Member of Grace Chapel, she was the pianist and music coordinator for 39 years for the church and, for many years, for their weekly radio broadcast over WAYX. She also was accompanist for “The Chapelaires,” Grace Chapel’s youth choir, led by Sylvia Evans, as they sang weekly at Grace Chapel and also traveled out to sing for many occasions around South Georgia. Mrs. Jones and Miss Evans also were frequently invited to sing for churches and community programs.
For 10 years, Mrs. Jones also played for an early Sunday morning service at Young Chapel in Emerson Park, an extension of First Presbyterian Church of Waycross. She also was always “a cheerful giver” when she was invited to play for “Gospel sings” and special services in other churches and the community. In her later years, before illness began to limit her activity, she devotedly brought her music to Baptist Village for two-and-a-half years, bringing the residents joy as they joined in singing hymns or requesting she play favorite songs.
Throughout her life, her special delight was to nurture others’ gifts of music, whether children, youth, or adults, and to see them grow in the expression of their giftings.
She was preceded in death by her parents, James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell; her husband, Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr.; six sisters, Leila Aldridge (Eugene), Mary Aldridge (Neil), Daisy Whaley (Hendrix), Edna Hagin (Everett), Lottie Freeman (Eugene), and Alice Chancey (M.J.); and three brothers, Thomas Mizell (Myrtice), Owen Mizell and Ernest Mizell.
Survivors include one sister-in-law, Nell Mizell (widow of Ernest Mizell); one brother-in-law, Ted Jones (wife Dorothy); and many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren
A funeral service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday (March 3, 2018) at the Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will follow in Oakland Cemetery. The family will receive friends 1:45 until 2:45 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions can be made to Creative Word Ministries, P.O. Box 551, Lima, NY 14485, or Hospice Satilla, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross 31501.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
She was born July 11, 1927 in Brantley County to the late James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell. She was #9 in a close-knit and loving family of 10 children, the youngest of 7 sisters.
As a child, after her parents moved to Waycross from Brantley County, she started school at Gilchrist Park Elementary and continued to attend Waycross Public Schools through the 7th grade. After she completed the 7th grade at the Waycross Junior High School downtown, her family moved to Folkston for several years. There she attended Charlton County High School, from which she graduated in 1945. While there she played basketball and participated in the choral program. She was a member of the Acappella Girls’ Quartet who won a state championship. When her family returned to Waycross in January of her senior year, Dorothy stayed on in Folkston with her oldest sister, Leila, until the day of her graduation, returning home to Waycross immediately after the ceremony. From that time, she has been a member of the Waycross community.
On June 30, 1948, she was married to the late Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr. of Waycross, a World War II veteran. She was employed by Swisher and Sons of Waycross for 21 years.
Mrs. Jones’ life was marked by her out-going personality and her personal love for people. “She never met a stranger” was often noted about her. Her captivating smile, her genuine concern, her giving heart, her gift of hospitality, and her Christian life have left deep impressions and lasting influence on many lives.
Though she was known for her love of children - “anybody’s and everybody’s children,” she was heard to say - she was not given her own children, but her mother heart was not left empty. In the absence of birth-children, the Lord brought great joy to the Joneses through their “chosen children,” all of whom came from afar as God brought them to Waycross and into the “made-up Georgia family” as young adults:
Miss Sylvia Evans, of Lima, New York, moved to Waycross as a teacher in 1965 at Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ invitation after meeting at a convention at Grace Chapel in Waycross. In 1975, she and a group of friends founded Creative Word Ministries, the channel through which she and a team of co-workers have continued to travel in missions and ministry.
Miss Janice Hill, from Michigan, who came to Waycross as a social worker with the Ware County Schools in 1975, and since retirement from the school system has served with Hospice Satilla, where she is presently the Coordinator of Volunteers.
Mr. and Mrs. Vien Luu, a Chinese couple who came as refugees from Vietnam at the fall of Saigon, also in 1975, and were “adopted” into the Jones family. Their son, Bobby Luu, became the Joneses’ “chosen grandson.”
In addition, there are numerous “honorary children and grandchildren” who look to Mrs. Jones as a special “mom,” “mama” or “grandmother,” though not by birth, and she has come to be known as “Mama Jones” or “Mama J” to many other people through her involvement in the lives and ministries of her “chosen” and “honorary” children.
She also has been greatly beloved and honored by her many nieces and nephews of three or four generations, for whom she has personally expressed great care and love. To them she is lovingly known as “Aunt Dot” or “Aunt Dorothy.”
All her life, music was a mark of her life. At a young age her love for music included both singing and playing the piano, with a special gift for playing Christian music “by ear.” As a child, she had been taught the scale by a neighbor lady, Rose Fairlee, a missionary who came to Waycross to found the El Bethel Church. She had invited little Dorothy to come to her home to play her piano. Ms. Fairlee had felt the Lord wanted her to teach young Dorothy what she knew of music, for which Dorothy was always grateful. Beyond her own delight in music, over the years, Dorothy’s gift developed into a significant ministry that touched many lives. As a Charter Member of Grace Chapel, she was the pianist and music coordinator for 39 years for the church and, for many years, for their weekly radio broadcast over WAYX. She also was accompanist for “The Chapelaires,” Grace Chapel’s youth choir, led by Sylvia Evans, as they sang weekly at Grace Chapel and also traveled out to sing for many occasions around South Georgia. Mrs. Jones and Miss Evans also were frequently invited to sing for churches and community programs.
For 10 years, Mrs. Jones also played for an early Sunday morning service at Young Chapel in Emerson Park, an extension of First Presbyterian Church of Waycross. She also was always “a cheerful giver” when she was invited to play for “Gospel sings” and special services in other churches and the community. In her later years, before illness began to limit her activity, she devotedly brought her music to Baptist Village for two-and-a-half years, bringing the residents joy as they joined in singing hymns or requesting she play favorite songs.
Throughout her life, her special delight was to nurture others’ gifts of music, whether children, youth, or adults, and to see them grow in the expression of their giftings.
She was preceded in death by her parents, James J. “Jeff” Mizell and Laura Lillian Harris Mizell; her husband, Frederick Shilon Jones, Jr.; six sisters, Leila Aldridge (Eugene), Mary Aldridge (Neil), Daisy Whaley (Hendrix), Edna Hagin (Everett), Lottie Freeman (Eugene), and Alice Chancey (M.J.); and three brothers, Thomas Mizell (Myrtice), Owen Mizell and Ernest Mizell.
Survivors include one sister-in-law, Nell Mizell (widow of Ernest Mizell); one brother-in-law, Ted Jones (wife Dorothy); and many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren
A funeral service will be held 3 p.m. Saturday (March 3, 2018) at the Music Funeral Home Chapel. Entombment will follow in Oakland Cemetery. The family will receive friends 1:45 until 2:45 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions can be made to Creative Word Ministries, P.O. Box 551, Lima, NY 14485, or Hospice Satilla, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross 31501.
Music Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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