Fannie Jones

Fannie Earl Jones, 96, of Troy passed away Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at Union City Manor.
A graveside funeral service will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at Terrace Hill Cemetery near Troy. White-Ranson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family requests donations be made in her name to Troy United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Jones was born Sept. 29, 1920, in the Obion County community of Dixie, daughter of the late John Thomas and Maggie Lou (Barnes) Roney. She was one of the couple’s eight surviving children.
She played on the state champion women’s basketball team at the former Dixie High School. After graduation, she continued to play basketball for the Brown Shoe Co. team, where she worked in Union City during World War II.
After the war, she married Herbert Woodrow Jones on Oct. 6, 1945, when he returned from Europe after serving in the Army during World War II. Mr. and Mrs. Jones lived first in Nashville, then Union City and Hornbeak, eventually settling in Troy in 1968. Mr. Jones died on Feb. 13, 1987.
The couple had two sons, Tony Jones, who now lives with his wife, Margie, in Union City, and Tim Jones, who now lives with his wife, Teri, in Oak Point, Texas.
Mrs. Jones was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her brothers, John Thomas Roney, Alfred Roney and Hugh Roney; her sisters, Mary Smith, Ruth Williams and Marie (Moultrie) Townsley; and their spouses.
She is survived by her brother, Ray Roney of Union City.
Other survivors include two sons, Tony Jones and Tim Jones; two grandsons, Bill Jones and Michael Pinckney; and six great-grandchildren, Shandi Huber, Justin Huber, Bobby Jones, Brady Jones, Luke Pinckney and Charlotte Pinckney.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.