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Obituary – Mary M. Norwood-Jones

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Staff

Mary M. Norwood-Jones was born in Durham on May 9, 1933 to the late Nora M. Norwood. She attended Orange County Training School and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1951.

She was a member of First Baptist Church. At the age of twelve, she joined Rock Hill Baptist Church.

After graduating from Lincoln High School, she attended North Carolina College at Durham for Negroes, which is now N.C. Central University.

While attending college she was married to Edward E. Jones on August 21, 1952, in Conway, S.C.

Graduated in 1956 with a major in health and physical education and a double-minor in education and history, she taught in dependent military schools between 1956 and 1959 in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. After coming stateside in 1959, she taught and coached girls basketball at South Hampton County training schools in VA., and later taught in Washington D.C.

After teaching in Washington D.C. she worked with a very special delinquency-prevention program for twenty-eight years.

She was an elected advisory neighborhood commissioner with a single membership district of 2,000 for six years.

She retired from the program in 1989 and continued to be an advocate for youths.

Then she moved back to Chapel Hill in 1991 and became very active in youth programs like Head Start, Hargraves Center, Northside Gym and First Baptist Church Youth Christian Fellowship.

She led the Northside community-watch program for many, many years.

Survivors include two daughters, Joni L. Jones-Callahan and Carol B. Jones-Ingraham (Edward); three grandchildren, Ashley Christina, Cardin Pompey and Denzel Edward; one sister, Martha N. Atwater Barbee; one brother, Thomas “Bubba” Norwood; sisters-in-law Barbara Jones Campbell and Lillie Mae Allen; and a host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held on Friday February 8 at First Baptist Church. Burial was on Monday, February 11 at Salisbury National Cemetary. Arrangements by Jones Funeral Home in Chapel Hill.

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