Winonia "Nona" Jones

Winonia Darlene “Nona” Jones, 67, Altus, passed away on September 22, 2010 at the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City. Memorial service will be 2:00 PM Sunday, September 26, 2010 at the Emmanuel Baptist Church with Rev. Boyd Whitehead officiating. Arrangements were made by the Kincannon Funeral Home. Nona was born on April 22, 1943 in Durham, Oklahoma to Guy C. and Erma M. (Gantz) Hensley. She grew up in Durham and graduated from Reydon High School. She graduated and received master’s degree from both Southwestern Oklahoma State University and West Texas A & M University. She served a year in the US Army. She taught most of her life and spent more than ten years teaching Computer Science at Western Oklahoma State College. She retired from Red River Community Credit Union as Vice President of Data Processing. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Disabled American Veterans, the American Legion, Jackson County Democrat Women and the Red Hat Society She was President of OSU sponsored Oklahoma Home & Community Education Great Expectations Group. She was also a tutor for Great Plains Literacy Council. Nona was a member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church since 2003 and was very active in church activities. She served whenever she was called upon and was very loving, positive and humorous. She taught her Sunday School class, led a Ladies Bible Study, taught a bible study at Plantation Village Nursing Home, and cooked for many youth at Falls Creek. She helped out with children’s ministries, VBS, B.L.A.S.T., the ladies ministry and the prayer ministry. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Jones, her father, and two sisters, Vondell Allbright and Karen Sue Hensley. Nona is survived by her mother, Erma Hensley of Sayre, OK; a sister, Patricia Minjaris and her husband, Lee, of Alamogordo, NM; five brothers, Addie Hensley and his wife, Norma, of Pampa, TX, Dale Hensley and his wife, Pat, of Clovis, NM, Ronald Hensley and his wife, Darlene, of Durham, OK, Quinlin Hensley and his wife, Roxie, of Altus, OK, and Glen Hensley and his wife, Sherry, of Cheyenne, OK.