John Elmer Jones
John Elmer Jones of Peoria, Ariz., formerly of Boise, Elkhorn and Moses Lake, born Dec. 7, 1917, in Kellogg, Idaho to John E. and Lydia Jones passed away on Oct. 29, 2006, at home in Peoria. John was the youngest of three children. He graduated from Kellogg High School and went to the University of Idaho, where he studied accounting and lived at Beta Theta Pi fraternity house until World War II. He served as Captain in the Army Air Corps as a financial officer in Italy. After the war, he taught accounting at the University of Idaho where he met and married Ruth Marie Curtis of Boise in 1945. They moved to Salt Lake City where John was employed by a regional CPA firm. Their first child, Tom, was born while they were in Salt Lake City. John was transferred to Boise to manage the firm's Boise office in 1950 where their second child, David was born.
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