- Date Of Birth: June 18, 1930
- Date Of Death: June 22, 2017
- State: Colorado
Joan McCauley Jones: Sweetheart Wife, Mother, Nana, Teacher and Friend to All Joan McCauley Jones of Gleneagles Village, Highlands Ranch passed away in home hospice in the family residence on June 22, 2017. She had been ill for several months. Cecilia McCauley Jones (always called JoAnne by her family and old friends) was born to Lyle McCauley and Ida Ryan on June 18, 1930 in Mason City, Iowa. The home in which she lived for over twenty years on the eleven hundredth block of North Harrison was home to the McCauley family for over sixty years. Joanne (called Jo by her husband and others after 1951) attended Holy Family School from kindergarten through high school graduation in 1948. She graduated from Mason City Junior College and the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education with honors. She completed advanced graduate work in Reading Diagnostics at Michigan State University. She had selected elementary school teaching as her life’s work from her grade school days when the good Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary supported those hopes and dreams. Her education, love of teaching and experience supported her successful and fulfilling teaching years in Finchford, Cedar Falls and Strawberry Point, Iowa and her supervisory roles as a reading specialist in Lansing and East Lansing, Michigan. Jo left teaching to become a full-time Mom when her children were born. The beloved children came from a marriage to Darrell G. Jones of Mason City, Iowa in 1951. There are three children: Scott (Narda) Jones of Evansville, IN, Karen Jones and Lee Ann (Matt) Smith of Littleton, CO. The four wonderful grandchildren are Kaitlyn and Allison Bohus and Jake and Alec Smith. Beloved grandson Ryan Bohus passed away at age twenty-two in 2015. Jo and Darrell moved to Colorado following his retirement in 1997 from Western Michigan University to be close to family. They chose Gleneagles Village after owning a down-town condominium while still living in Michigan and after an exhaustive search for a permanent and final home. Moving to Colorado was one of the wisest and most significant decisions they had made and was the constant refrain of both Joan and husband Darrell.
