02/12/12 — LILLIE C. JONES

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LILLIE C. JONES

Feb. 21, 1919-Feb. 11, 2012

SNOW HILL -- Mrs. Lillie Essie Corbett Jones, 92, died Saturday morning, Feb. 11, 2012, at Greendale Forest Nursing Center in Snow Hill.

Funeral services will be held Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Tony Lee and the Rev. Wayne Johnson officiating. Committal services will be held Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 11 a.m. at the Snow Hill Cemetery.

A native of Greene County, she was born Feb. 21, 1919, the daughter of Lee and Fannie Taylor Corbett. Mrs. Jones was a homemaker and active member of the Snow Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church until her health declined.

In addition to her parents, Mrs. Jones was preceded in death by her husband, John Hubert Jones; siblings, Viola Carter, Annie Lee Crews, Albert Corbitt and Thomas Harper Corbett; and a granddaughter, Janice J. Barrow.

Her survivors include her daughter, Mary Jones Fail and husband, Jimmy, of Pikeville; sons, Hubert Densel Jones, Randall Lee Jones and wife, Thelma Jane, and Kenneth Ray Jones and wife, Anna, all of Snow Hill; brother, Russell Corbitt and wife, Joyce, of Snow Hill; seven grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends on Monday evening following the service and other times at the residence of Hubert Densel Jones, 257 Free Gospel Road, Snow Hill.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.taylor-tyson.com.

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Published in Obituaries on February 12, 2012 10:44 AM