Richard Thomas Jones' Obituary
Richard (Dick) T Jones passed away peacefully on November 4, 2022.
Richard was born on November 3, 1935 in Dighton, Kansas in a sod house. The Dust Bowl brought his family to Oregon when he was 2 years old. Scappoose is where he would spend the rest of his life.
Richard married the love of his life, Joyce in 1953 and enjoyed 68 years of married life. His sweetheart passed in 2021 and the hole in his heart never healed.
Richard went to Scappoose schools, beginning in first grade with Fern Petersen as his teacher.
Richard was a faithful family man who had room in his heart for many friends and activities. He was a very proud member of the Scappoose Jaycees where he received a number of accolades for service, the memories and friendships made in this group were amazing, let along the impact they had on our community. He began working at a very young age. He worked for Joe Fisher farm (Fisher’s Dip), Trtek’s Boom and Holbrook Lumber. He owned and operated Dick’s Mobil Gas on the corner of Hwy 30 and Scappoose Vernonia Hwy before making his career at the Housing Authority of Portland where he retired at age 57 as the Executive Director of Maintenance.
Richard and Joyce purchased his family’s homestead in Scappoose naming it Heartacres. This is where home was for over 30 years.
Richard enjoyed many activities including working the land with his beloved tractor, gardening, hunting, fishing, coin collecting and most of all spending time with his friends and family. Richard and Joyce became grandparents early in life and thoroughly enjoyed every one of their 12 grandchildren. Pa was the name given to him and he wore that name like a badge of honor.
Richard and Joyce enjoyed a long retirement together and so loved their winter home in Mesa, AZ where they added to their long lists of friends.
Richard is survived by his three children, Karen Brock (Butch), Rick Jones, Becky Jones (Glenna). His wonderful grandchildren, Cassidy Harper, Kate Fox, Weston Brock, Nicole Jones, Joel Wagner, Cody McCullar, Will Jones, Jarrod Brock, Jake Gentry, Ty Jones, Seth Brock and Darren Brock as well as 18 (and counting) great grandchildren. In addition, brother in law Calvin McCullar and sister in law Dolores as well as many nieces and nephews whom he adored.
Richard is proceeded in death by his sweetheart Joyce, parents Art and Effie Jones, brothers Eldon, Irvin, Kay Don, sisters; Zilpha, Helen, Velma, Donna, and Arelene.
Services will be held Tuesday, November 15, at 1:00 p.m. at Columbia Funeral Home in St. Helens. Private Interment at Fairview Cemetery in Scappoose.
The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
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