Marjorie Paschke Jones

Mrs. Marjorie Paschke Jones, 92, died Thursday, October 26, 2006 at her Nashville residence at The Blakeford at Green Hills. The family will visit with friends Friday from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Oakes & Nichols in Columbia and Saturday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the parlor of Belle Meade United Methodist Church. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at Belle Meade United Methodist Church with Dr. George Jones officiating. A graveside service will be Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at City Cemetery in Indianola, Mississippi with Rev. Allen Bailey officiating. Memorials may be made to Alive Hospice of Nashville, 1718 Patterson Street, Nashvile 37203 Notes of sympathy may be sent to www.oakesandnichols.com. Marjorie Paschke Jones was the embodiment of the American dream. Born in Everette, Washington to a family including immigrant grandparents from Prussia, Germany, Ireland, and Canada and of parents from Liverpool, England and Michigan. Marjorie spent her young life in a home on a hill overlooking the Puget Sound. In the third grade, her parents, Bertrum and Hazel Marzoff Paschke, opened an art gallery and paint store in the then-tiny desert hamlet of Riverside, California, where Marjorie was among the first graduating class at Riverside Polytechnic High School. Her early adventures included the new sport of snow skiing, once breaking a rib, and surfing lessons from Duke Kahanamoku on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii. With the advent of World War II, Riverside became the home of a major Army Air Corps base, March Field, where Marjorie met a dashing Captain from Indianola, Mississippi who became the love of her life. Captain Russell A. Jones and Marjorie Paschke were married May 29, 1943, only weeks before he was shipped to the South Pacific to join General McArthur's army. Fortunately, Russell came home from the war unscathed and thereafter carried his war bride way down yonder to New Orleans, where he ran a family business. In 1965, the family relocated to Nashville. Marjorie loved her family, Mardi Gras, Newport Beach, California, New Orleans cooking, and college football. Her secret for a long life was "a nap every afternoon and a cocktail every evening." Her family wishes to express their appreciation to her many friends and the "angels of The Blakeford and Alive Hospice." She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Patricia Dodd "Patti" and David Gray of Franklin; a son and daughter-in-law, Russell Alexander "Rusty" and Nona Jones, Jr. of Nashville; four grandchildren, Patricia Anne Gray (Mike) Hall, Rachel Lauren Jones, Grayson Virginia Jones, and David Douglas Gray; a great-grandson, John Michael Hall, Jr.