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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The friends and family of Ulysses Jones of Houston |
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are mourning the loss of this beloved neighbor and admired church |
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leader who passed away on March 16, 2009, at the age of 91; and |
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WHEREAS, Born on May 18, 1917, to Sam and Viola Bernard Jones |
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in Bunkie, Louisiana, Ulysses Jones was the youngest of four |
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children and spent his early years in the nearby town of Marksville; |
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he joined the Congregational St. John Baptist Church at an early |
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age, beginning a lifelong journey of spiritual devotion; and |
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WHEREAS, Mr. Jones met the love of his life, the former Eunice |
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Barton, while living in Marksville, and though he later moved to |
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Houston, he returned to Louisiana to marry his beloved in 1942; Mr. |
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and Mrs. Jones settled in Houston and enjoyed 66 rewarding years of |
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matrimony; the couple raised a cherished family that included 6 |
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children, Ernest, Nobleton, Hannah, Ulysses, Eddie, and Marie, as |
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well as 11 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren; and |
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WHEREAS, A dedicated man of faith, Mr. Jones was a member of |
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Mt. Horem Baptist Church in Houston before joining Mt. Ararat |
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Missionary Baptist Church; he was ordained as a deacon at Mt. Ararat |
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in the mid-1950s and served ably in that capacity for more than half |
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a century; and |
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WHEREAS, Ulysses Jones lived a full and generous life filled |
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with meaningful achievements, and he leaves his loved ones with |
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countless treasured memories of the happy times spent in his |
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company; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas |
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Legislature hereby pay tribute to the life of Ulysses Jones and |
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extend sincere sympathy to the members of his family: to his wife of |
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66 years, Eunice Barton Jones; to his children, Ernest Jones and his |
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wife, Birdie, Nobleton B. Jones and his wife, Lee Esther, Hannah |
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Smith and her husband, Harvey, Ulysses S. Jones and his wife, |
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Janice, Eddie Jones and his wife, Stephanie, and Marie Mure and her |
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husband, Charles; to his adopted son, Julius Houston; to his |
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grandchildren, Zanetta Traham and her husband, Dana, Nobleton F. |
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Jones and his wife, Carrie, Devin Jones, Shunika Ward and her |
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husband, Lathawn, Harvey and Haven Smith, Eddie Jones II, Ulysses |
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S. Jones II, Jonathan and Joel Jones, and Camille Mure; to his |
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great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Traham, Ellis Allums, and Jazmine |
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Ward; to his aunt, Ella Mae Washington; to his sisters-in-law, |
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Doris Bates and Margie Jones; to his godchild, Bobbie Jean Johnson |
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and her husband, Rufus; to his special cousin, Delores Johnson; to |
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his nieces and nephews; and to his other relatives and friends; and, |
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be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Ulysses |
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Jones. |