Ruth C. Jones; Retired Kindergarten Teacher
Ruth C. Jones, who taught kindergarten at Newhall Elementary School for about 40 years, has died at a Valencia hospital. She was 86.
Mrs. Jones died Wednesday of natural causes, according to a nephew.
Born June 28, 1904, in Hibbing, Minn., she began teaching kindergarten at Newhall Elementary School in the early 1920s. Upon her retirement in 1962, the school declared a Ruth Jones Day and honored her with an open house, said Betty Granger, principal of Old Orchard Elementary School in Valencia.
For several years after she left Newhall Elementary, she would return on the first day of school to greet the new kindergarten pupils. The walls of her room at the Santa Clarita Convalescent Hospital, where she most recently lived, at times were decorated with artwork done by schoolchildren.
She has no immediate survivors. Her husband, Wallace Jones, died in 1964.
Services are private. Eternal Valley Mortuary in Newhall is handling the arrangements.
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