At about 4 o'clock the afternoon of March 16th, 2024, Priscilla Jones, age 102, quietly slipped away, yet she will always be here in our hearts.

Priscilla was born in 1922 in Massachusetts; spent her childhood in Mason, NH and graduated from Keen State College. She first taught all eight grades in a one-room school house. After she married Bradford B. Jones at the end of his service in WWII in 1945, she moved to Hampton, Virginia. In Hampton and Newport News, she taught first and second grade. Most of her married life she lived in Newport News and moved to Smithfield with her husband in their later years.

Her greatest love was children – all kinds, all colors, good, naughty, or indifferent. A great part of her long life was spent in education; teaching and working with young children in schools and her church.

Priscilla's husband, Bradford B. Jones predeceased her. She is survived by two children, Elizabeth A. Jones and Howard C. Jones (and his wife Patricia); two grandchildren, Brad M. Jones and Eric C. Jones; two great grandchildren, Danielle Jones and Hunter Jones; and two great great grandchildren, Layla Seymour and Bryce Seymour.

There will be a small service for family members. If you wish to honor her passing, in lieu of flowers please contribute to your favorite charity.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.  Thereau: Walden

*Photograph: Priscilla Jones with Hunter Jones, June 2023*