THE LIFE OF

LORENZA  LUTHER  JONES

ON 29 OF AUGUST OUR BELOVED FATHER GRANDFATHER, BROTHER AND UNCLE  LORENZA L. JONES

WENT HOME TO GLORY TO BE WITH GOD. HE WAS BORN ON 9th MARCH 1937 IN OAKWOOD, TEXAS.

HE SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY FOR SIX YEARS AS A AVIATION  MACHANIST MATE 3 ^RD CLASS.

HE WENT TO BOOTCAMP IN GREAT LAKES IN WHIDBEY ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION IN OAK HARBOR, WASHINGTON AS A AIRCRAFT MECHANIC FIXING JET ENGINES.  HE CAME TO NAVAL AIR STATION CORPUS CHRISTI WHERE HE SET ROOTS AND MARRIED  JOHNNIE M. JONES IN 1978. UPON RETIREMENT FROM THE U.S. NAVY HE ATTENDED DELMAR COLLEGE  WHERE HE RECEIVED  MULTIPLE CERTIFICATES TO ADD TO HIS TRADE AS A WELDER. HE WORKED FOR CITGO AND FLINT HILLS REFINERY UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT.

HE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE OF FORTY YEARS JOHNNIE M. JONES OF CORPUS CHRISTI TX, HIS MOTHER-N-LAW JENNIE B. BARNES, SIS-N-LAW DORTHY MAE ROSE CORZINE AND GLORIA MCCHESTER, CHILDREN  DARREL D. WALLACE-EDWARDS.

HE LEAVES BEHIND TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIE SONS, FREDDIE LEE WALLACEJR. AND DARRELL WALLACE, 15 GRAND CHILDREN, SISTER N-LAW NINA LAWSON AND A HOST OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND FRIENDS.