Cheryl L. Jones

Cheryl L. Jones, 39, of Altamont, died Sunday, May 22, 2011, from injuries sustained from the tornado at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin where she was currently a patient.

She was born at Parsons, Kansas to Lloyd D. and Mary L. (Uitts) Jones. She grew up at rural Altamont and attended the Independence Bible School where she graduated in 1989. She worked as a telemetry technician at the Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita for several years.

She enjoyed playing the piano and writing in her journal.

She is survived by her son, Brendan Sean Hamilton of Sedgwick, Kansas; Her father and stepmother, Lloyd and Ruth Jones of rural Altamont; One brother, Marvin Jones of Altamont; One sister, Brenda Roark of Loveland, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her mother in 2006.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at the Altamont Bible Holiness Church in Altamont, Kansas. Burial will follow at the Mound Valley Cemetery at Mound Valley, Kansas. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m., Tuesday at the Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Altamont.