2-1-12

Sharon Yohn, Barb's mom, composed this letter for a church group in which she is active. What a wonderful family. 

Dearest Anna:                                                                                                                                           

2-1-12

I send you my love on the valentine’s month, February 2012. I miss you often. My faith tells me that you are aware of the comings and goings of the Jones family. Let me touch on a few moments with you.

You and Larry must be very proud of your three sons. Let’s start with Steve. He is doing well in his business in St. Louis. He is a great dad to Kyle who is becoming a wonderful young man. Angi and Steve have matured and deal with matters of Kyle quite well. Steve is a loving man; he really loves to come to Kansas City for celebrations. He treats Bill and I with the utmost respect and love. 

Onward to Mike. Mike is an incredible dad to Zach and he and Andrea are keeping their busy schedules under control. Barb just called to say that she went to Zach’s day-care yesterday to pick up Zach because Mike was stuck in New York unable to come home in a timely manner; Andrea was in the middle of her twelve-hour shift at the KU hospital. Barb told me that Zach was adorable and the boys played together until Andrea could come get him about 9:00pm. Isn’t that wonderful? 

Now what about Warren? Where do I start. Warren is a very excellent father. (That’s three for three!!) He is hard-driving but fair, which is how your sons described Larry. Matt now works full-time at the clinic trying to save funds to move out on his own. Matt is a great kid; I hope you are aware that he is an artist. He started majoring in Art at the community college but now he’s thinking of what to do. He is a very fine bass guitar player; and his hobby of skateboarding is alive and well. He is always very respectful to us and we adore him. Nick is very interesting! His goal on this his second semester of the junior year is to improve his GPA while doing above and beyond the required preparation for baseball at Parkhill. Anna, he wants to go to KSU!!! We all hope he will be enabled to do so. This remains to unfold in the coming months. He is a neat kid and very respectful to us. When I hug him, I sometimes say “Nick, you are awesome!’ and the adorable response is: “So are you, Grammy” in his nice deep voice. I hope you can hear these things. And Cole Riley Jones: well, at age ten, he has our hearts in his hands. He is a very active, charming and engaging young man. When in a family group recently, someone noticed that Cole can and will visit with the youngest to the oldest with ease. His looks reminds me of Larry in the area of his eyes.

Back to Warren. He has three businesses. He is doing well. He is now looking toward the future and is preparing to gradually get out of the businesses-perhaps in the next decade or so. His goal is to be able to spend time with Barb in a warmer climate to help her circulation problems. He mentions you and Larry enough that I know he misses you both. My faith lets me believe that you are aware of his thoughts and dreams. I mention you sometimes just to let Warren know that I, too, remember and miss you.

Barb: I know that you fell in love with Barb as Warren did. Yes, you got yourself a fantastic daughter-in-law. She loved you dearly, also. She is a great mom, wife and daughter to us. We feel totally blessed to have the Barb/Warren Jones family nearby so we can share joys and sorrows together.

I hope that you love this letter. I’ve loved composing it and sharing it with dear friends, as well as with Barb and Warren. It gives me comfort to know that you are aware of us still. 

Sending our love, Sharon and Bill

Anna Corrine Attwater Jones died in 1999 at the age of 61.