Dorothy Anne (Homan) Jones passed away Jan. 8 at a Salem care home. She was 99.

Dorothy was born to her mother, Edith Dora (Smith) Turner, and father, Edgar Turner (deceased from Spanish flu shortly before her birth), May 3, 1919, in Seattle, Wash. Her widowed mother, Edith, married Harvey Homan, and the family lived in Raymond, Wash, before moving to Seaside, Bend, and finally Bay City, where Dorothy graduated from high school as salutatorian.

She attended Oregon Normal School in Monmouth, and after graduation, taught school one year at Hebo. She then married Charles (Bud) Hamilton Jones in 1940. They lived together until Bud’s death in 2007.

During their 67 years of marriage, Dorothy and Bud raised three daughters and taught school together at the following places in Oregon: Mist, Mitchell, Kinzua, Independence, Dever, Frenchglen, Sodhouse on the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Long Creek, and Greenwood School near Independence.

Dorothy always had a love of children and enjoyed seeing them succeed in life. She and her husband also, for several years, tutored and cared for seven foster children along with their own three daughters. Dorothy also enjoyed playing the organ, sewing, working in her yard, and growing a garden and flowers.

Survivors include three daughters, Charlene Anne Kizer of Albany, Gayle Diane Griffith of Sweet Home, and Andrea Elaine Melendy of Independence; nine grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Charles (Bud) Jones; and two sisters, Irene Sause of Coos Bay, and Mary Lou Hill of Centralia, Wash.

At her request, no funeral will be held, but a family celebration of life will be planned at a later date. Farnstrom Mortuary, Independence, is in charge of arrangements. Memories and condolences may be shared at FarnstromMortuary.com.