- Date Of Birth: December 20, 1939
- Date Of Death: November 26, 2021
- State: Indiana
Dorothy A. Jones,81, of West Lafayette, passed away on Friday, November 26, 2021, at her home.
She was born December 20, 1939, in New York City, NY, to the late Martin and Genevieve (Wells)Paul.
Dorothy graduated from the University of Wisconsin—Madison with a BA in zoology. She attended that university on a Ford Foundation Scholarship. She then went on to Case-Western Reserve University with an MA in zoology, and Purdue University with a PhD in biology education. She also received a second BA in music from St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, IN.
On December 17, 1966, she married Dr. Duvall A. Jones in Washington, DC and he preceded her in death on October 15, 2005.
Dorothy taught courses in biology and music at St. Joseph College in Rensselaer and worked in the HORIZONS program at the Office of the Dean of Students at Purdue University. She also had a business teaching piano lesson in Rensselaer. Many students have fond memories of the way she instilled the love of music in their lives.
She was a past President of WALLA, the Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association, and also of the homeowners association at Green Tree, the community where she lived in West Lafayette for the last twenty years.
She was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, serving on the Vestry and prayer shawl ministry, Niches Land Trust, Sycamore Audubon Society, the Ambassadors, and the Happy Hollow Garden Club. She had a community garden plot and gardened avidly in both her homes in Rensselaer and West Lafayette, Indiana. She was previously a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Rensselaer, serving as a mission and hunger advocate. She also volunteered with Heifer Project International and the Bombers for Academic Excellence. Dorothy sang with the Saint Joseph College choir as well as with the choirs at both her churches.
Dorothy volunteered in the Lilly Nature Center at the Celery Bog. She was able to impart her vast knowledge of animals and plants with visitors there. With her husband Duvall, she saw many of the birds in North America, and they both worked on compiling the Indiana Breeding Bird Atlas. Duvall never saw a snowy owl though, but Dorothy did. She was involved with the Indiana Academy of Science as well as with PURA, Purdue University Retirees Association, and enjoyed traveling with Elderhostel/Road Scholar along with her sister Harriet, who has a goal of seeing all fifty states. They traveled to many states together. A trip to Yosemite was notable as they got there finally after many years of having the desire to see it—even since childhood.
Surviving are her daughters Genevieve I. Jones of Lafayette, Nathalie R. Jones of West Lafayette and her sister Harriet R. Jonquiere of Merrick, NY.
