Jones, Eunice Mullen

Eunice Mullen Jones, 89, of Blacksburg, Va., went to be with the Lord on Monday, February 14, 2011, at Kroontje Health Care Center. She was born in Hertford County, N.C., on May 22, 1921, to the late Miles Thomas (Pete) and Jonie Pilant Mullen. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Robert Milton Jones; three sisters, Ruth Spivey, of Tunis, N.C., Margaret Withey, of Fairfield Glade, Tenn., and Nellie Horton, of Chesapeake, Va.; and a brother, William Mullen, of Tunis, N.C. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Robert M. and JoAnn Jones, of Blacksburg; a grandson, Greg Jones and his wife, Alexis, of Richmond, Va.; and nieces, JoAnn Herring, Joyce Bryum, Norma Jean Hannigan, Margorie Phillipe, Peggy Hanbury, Barbara Ann Yoder. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday evening, February 17, 2011, at McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg, Va. Funeral Services will be conducted 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 19, 2011, in the Holly Springs Baptist Church, Winton, N.C., with the Rev. Gilbert Crawford and the Rev. Thorton Frye officiating. The family will receive friends on Saturday from noon until service time at the church. Interment will follow in the Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Winton, N.C. Arrangements by Garrett-Jones Funeral Home, Ahoskie, N.C., and McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg, Va., 540-552-3211.