Howard R. Jones ’49

Howard Jones died March 19, 2013, in Davidson, N.C., at age 87.

Howard was born July 4, 1925, in Tacoma, Wash. A graduate of Coolidge High School, he went into the Army in 1943, was seriously wounded, and came to Princeton in 1946. Classmates remember his dry humor and his stoic acceptance of his physical limitations. He majored in SPIA, was a member of Court Club, and graduated in June 1949.

Howard received a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Minnesota in 1953 and spent his entire career as the administrator of several hospitals in the United States. In 1990 he “retired to live in the Dominican Republic,” as he described it, but by 2009, he and his wife, Marjean, had returned to the United States and took up residence at the Pines at Davidson, a retirement community in which he subsequently died.

He is survived by Marjean; his daughter, Marjorie; and his sister, Harriet J. Ball. A second daughter, Ann B. Jones, predeceased him. The class offers its deep condolences to Marjean and the family.