Clifton M. Jones

Published 12:00 am Thursday, April 2, 2009

GLASGOW — Clifton Maxwell Jones, 88, died March 31, 2009.

The Barren County native was a retired farmer who worked for 22 years as floor manager for local tobacco warehouses. He was a longtime member of Peters Creek Missionary Baptist Church, where he served as an ordained deacon, song director for 45 years, Sunday school teacher for 44 years, church secretary/treasurer and trustee. He served as an Army gunner, gun commander, platoon sergeant and drill sergeant during World War II stationed in the Panama Canal Zone and at Fort McClellan, Ala. He was a member of DAV Chapter 20, where he was a member of the Color Guard serving as sergeant of arms. He participated in more than 2,000 military funerals and other ceremonial events as part of the Color Guard. In May 2003, Mr. Jones was presented the Annual Patriot Award by the Veterans Association. He was a son of the late William Hershel Jones and Leva E. Williams Jones and the husband of the late Bessie Jewell Britt Jones. He was preceded in death by a brother, Lester Jones; and two sisters, Mary B. Jones Simmons and Wanda J. Houchens.

Funeral is at 2 p.m. Saturday at A.F. Crow & Son Funeral Home, with burial in Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. Visitation begins at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Survivors include two daughters, Martha Swearingen and her husband, Jim, and Mary Meyer and her husband, Gene, all of Brentwood, Tenn.; four grandchildren, Christopher Swearingen and his wife, Emilie, of Charleston, S.C., Dr. Alissa Swearingen of Phoenix, Travis Swearingen and his wife, Aftin, of Nashville and Chloe Meyer of San Francisco; a great-grandson, Joseph Swearingen of Charleston; a sister, Marguerite Jones Marshall of Orlando, Fla.; and a brother, the Rev. William H. Jones of Gallatin, Tenn.

Wilma J. Mahone

Wilma J. Mahone, 57, of Bowling Green died April 1, 2009, at The Medical Center.

Funeral arrangements, which are incomplete, are under the direction of Burnam & Son Mortuary.