Ruth Jones Chenault

I, Ruth Elisabeth Jones Chenault (nicknamed Sweet), was born in Detroit, Michigan to the late Carl Jones, Sr. of Belize, Honduras and Ruth Ethelma Knight of Scranton, South Carolina. Kenneth Chenault, my loving husband of thirty years preceded me in death. My brother, Carl Jones, Jr., and sister, Pernillar Jones Caesar have also preceded me. I am closing the chapter of this generation of the Jones family. The circle has been broken. I received the Lord and was baptized at the age of ten in the Church of God In Christ. I have been a faithful member of the Kelsey Temple Church of God In Christ for more years than I can remember. Educated in Detroit, Michigan; Buffalo, New York; D.C. Conservatory of Music in Washington, D.C., Washington Saturday College, Howard University and the University of D.C., I was always seeking to learn something constructive, new and challenging. In 1950, I came to Washington, D.C. assigned to the Pentagon for Headquarters, Department of Defense, Office of the Air Adjutant General of the Air Force, where I spent many years. I was selected to work on the Boeing 737 aircraft and received citations for my work and other confidential matters at the Federal Aviation Agency. I worked for other government agencies including the D.C. School System where I received Letters of Commendations in addition to many certificates, awards, letters of thanks and congratulations throughout my career. I also spent twelve years working in the private sector. Finally, in 1989, after a total of thirty-nine consecutive years, I retired from D.C. Department of Human Services, Social Work. My life has been very simple, spent in Church, work and school. I enjoyed helping others and had an open mind towards education with a particular fondness for the Performing Arts. I regarded my life as a positive learning experience. Though I learned from my mistakes in my lifetime, I now believe they were not mistakes, really only lessons. My life’s calling was to learn and help others. I have done that. Later in my life, God blessed me with a new loving family of Katherine Green Chester and Paralee Armstrong, both of whom have gone home to glory. Their children and family have been with me for these last years. Devoted, caring and faithful, they are my own family. I leave to cherish memories of me: Melody Jones Thomas, Serita Jones, Felita Kante and Crystal Thomas, nieces of Detroit Michigan and their families; Danette Jones, niece of Cincinnati, Ohio and her family; Leon Green, nephew of Washington, D.C. and his family; aDena Massié, niece of Clinton, Maryland and her family: Christal Baylor and Laurene Rucker, God-sisters; Garrett Jackson, God-son; Rhoda Gibson, God-daughter; hosts of cousins, grand and great grand nieces and nephews; extended families and many, many of friends. I have no other family. I have answered the final call and I’m ready. I have gone to my new home over in Zion and it’s mine, mine, mine! GOODBYE For Now! Ruth

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Ruth Jones Chenault

July 20, 1927 - March 23, 2021