JONES, Gerald J.
Sapulpa Herald, Creek Co. Oklahoma
06-26-1938

JONES FUNERAL RITES TOMORROW

Body of Grid Mentor Will Arrive Here Late Today; Rites at Chapel

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon from Lewis and Landrith funeral home for Gerald J. (Jerry) Jones, age 42, well known football player and college gridiron coach.

Rev. C. D. Todd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate at the services.

Jones was well known locally and in 1920 and 1921 had charge of Sapulpa’s team in the old Southwestern league.

While at Notre Dame he was on the famed teams of Knute Rockne for three years, where for two years the team was undefeated and the third year suffered only one defeat. It was in 1914 and 1915 that he played on the undefeated teams.

He coached at the University of Missouri in 1922, at the University of Louisville; was grid mentor at Xavier college at Cincinnati, Ohio.

He also played nine years of professional football and some amateur football. In 1918 he was on the Great Lakes Naval team that played in the Rose Bowl with another outstanding amateur squad.

Active pall bearers will be Ralph Mundell, Olen Harris, Frank Scott, Lester Mallory, F. W. Marshall, Ralph Robertson, Milton Katz and Glenn Cole.

Honorary pall bearers were listed as Glenn Berryhill, Earle Berryhill, Guy Berry, Brooke Thrift, Lester Katz, Fred Klingensmith, Dale Klingensmith, C. D. Klingensmith, Earl Glenn, A. S. Phillips, Clarence Warren, Denver Grigsby, Arthur Lawrence, Dr. B. C. Schwab, Dr. H. A. Haas, Judge J. R. Miller, Maynard Steck, Glenn Steck, George Simmons, Carl Schwartz, and Bobbie Johnson, all of Sapulpa. Father Farley, of Notre Dame. Earl Jones, Sam Avery, Raymond Knight, and Zig Duar, all of Tulsa, and Leo Case, of Oklahoma City.

Burial will be made in Southern Heights Cemetery.

The body is expected to arrive here at about 6 o’clock this evening.

Jones is survived by his widow, Mrs. Genevieve Jones; his mother Mrs. J. J. Jones, of Los Angeles, Cal., who will be here for the services; three sisters, Miss Quelma Jones of Cleveland, OK, Mrs. R. A. MANNHARDT of Delaware, OK, and Mrs. Pearl REYNARD, of Long Beach, Calif., all three of whom will not be able to be here for the services; one brother, X. Jones, of Sapulpa.

Jones career in football playing as well as coaching was extensive. He went to high school here in the old Washington grade school building, left there and went to Notre Dame for three years, then was graduated from Columbia college at Dubuque, IA.