TAPS ~ REST IN PEACE. Prayers requested.

[MountainFlower]

 

RIP Prayer Request
From Mountainflower

~ TAPS ~

It is with deep sadness that I relate the following to you.  On July 15 I received an email from Dan Small stating that our mutual friend, Hal Jones, has passed away after a 16-month or so battle with cancer. Hal Jones was with us in Washington, DC at Gathering of Eagles I.  It was an honor to get to know him and Dan, and to stand with him as a Marshal that day in March.  He has gone home to be with the Lord on July 14, 2008.  He is in a better place, standing at the ready in heaven, with no more pain or earthly sorrows.  He will be missed by his friends and loved ones.  Please pray for his family and for Dan. 

Hal F. Jones, 58, Edgewater, a self-employed truck driver, died Monday, July 14, 2008, at the Hospice Care Center, Port Orange. Mr. Jones, an Army veteran of the Vietnam War, was born in Berwyn, Ill., and moved to Edgewater in 1976 from Chicago, Ill. He was a radio dispatcher for the New Smyrna Beach Police Department for ten years and the Volusia County Sheriff's Department for five years. He also was a volunteer for the Turnbull Bay Fire Department and a ham radio operator. He enjoyed fishing, football and NASCAR. Survivors include his wife, Katherine "Kathy"; two sons, Phillip Jones, Edgewater, and Kevin (April) Jones, Maiden, N.C.; two daughters, Jessica and Jennifer Jones, both of Edgewater; and ten grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a sister, Cynthia Jones, in 1983. Funeral service will be 7 p.m. Saturday, July 19, at the Dudley Edgewater Chapel with Chaplain Alan Gaylord, Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, officiating, and members of the American Legion Post #285, Edgewater, conducting military honors. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until the service time Saturday at Dudley Edgewater Chapel. Private burial will be Monday, July 21, in the Veterans Field of Honor at Sea Pines Memorial Gardens, Edgewater.

To sign the guestbook:

http://www.legacy.com/NEWS-JOURNALONLINE/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=113478393

 

Please add your tributes here.  I will be emailing the link to Hal's family, so they can be a part of this TRIBUTE thread, as well.  I hope to obtain a few pictures to have posted also.  For those of you who knew Hal, feel free to share here and send your condolences through the GUESTBOOK link above.  Thank you to my FReeper friends who have assisted in putting this together.

[MountainFlower]

Please keep those who mourn his loss in your prayers.
Our loss is heaven's gain!

Thank you & God Bless
Mountainflower

[MountainFlower]

Below are pictures of Gathering of Eagles I, March 2007.

[MountainFlower]

Pictures of the 3 guys, after the day spent protecting the War Memorials. Hal was still joking, even after the long day as seen in the bottom picture!

[fatima]

God bless him,protesting till the last.Thanks MountainFlower.Prayer for his wonderful family.

[MountainFlower]

PING!

Please assist. Trussell, please ping your list. Kathy, Star and Luv can you please post appropriate music tributes. Alpha, how about a fly-by? Trussell...thank you for all your help!

[MountainFlower]

Please hit the GOE and Eagles UP ping lists, as Hal was with us in DC for GOE I. Thank you!!

[trussell]

RIP Prayer ping.

Please post your replies to MountainFlower

Rest in Peace
 Hal F. Jones

My prayers go up for all who now mourn the passing of Mr. Jones.  

Blessings,
trussell

If you want on/off my prayer ping list, please let me know. All requests happily honored.

[MountainFlower]

The guest book link is through the newspaper that posted and printed the obituary. The lady at the funeral home told me she checks it daily and prints whatever has been posted to the family there. The links for the funeral home were not working when we put this together, so we opted for this route.

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

RIP Hal Jones

Amazing Grace

[NEWwoman]

Condolences to your family.
We are thankful to Hal for his service to and love for his country.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

TAPS for a Veteran and Eagle’s Homecoming.

Condolences for now, yet there is Hope for a day and place when there is no more death, amen.

Please post your replies to MountainFlower

[OKIEDOC]

Prayers up

[DollyCali]

RIP hero!

Thank you for this thread & the opportunity for all to thank & honor this man

[Global2010]

Freeper in Heaven and Glory to God.

Watch over the rest of us.

[Smokin' Joe]

Prayers up for the family of a vet, a fellow firefighter, and lover of freedom. May he rest in peace. May Almighty God receive him, and see to all the needs of those who loved him. I ask this in Jesus’ Holy Name, Amen.

[bmwcyle]

Hand Salute.............two

[Biggirl]

Eternel rest to Hal’s soul and thank-you for your service.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[darkangel82]

We seem to be losing a lot of them lately. *sigh*

[rlmorel]

Hand Salute.

Walk with God now, my friend.