Ethel C. Jones

Ethel Corrine Jones 80, a resident of Star Hill, Dover, Delaware for 38 years, went to her eternal rest, Tuesday, December 18, 2012, at the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill in Smyrna, Delaware of respiratory failure. Ethel, Corrine or Ma, as she was known to many, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York on May 20, 1932 to Emmalyne Violet Lyte and Winton David Moore of Barbados. After graduating from high school, Ethel worked at a garment factory in Manhattan as a sewing machine operator, assembling women’s brassieres. She soon became a military wife and mother. As a military wife, Ethel raised her family of five boys. She set up house all over the world; Brooklyn, New York, RAF Welford England, Geiger Field in Spokane, WA and Richards-Gabour AFB, Kansas City, MO, Tachikawa Air Base, Japan, Prince George’s County, MD and Offutt AFB, NE. She worked outside the home at various department stores as a sales clerk and later in the hotel housekeeping service. Ethel retired from working outside of the home at the age of 65. She last worked for the Sheraton hotel in Dover, Delaware. In her life as a military wife, Corrine along with other military wives became friends with many from all over the country, at different Air Force bases she lived on in the 50’s and 60’s they would plan having family ‘get togethers’, rotating at each others homes. Ma was known for her signature dishes, fried chicken, hog maw salad, fish cakes with hot Barbados pepper sauce and her West Indian specialty; a hot bowl of Coo-Coo with ‘grease’ gravy! Ethel liked to play bingo and when she finally hit the jackpot in 1969, she bought a 25” color console TV. Ethel loved to travel. She went to Germany to see family and visited family in Las Vegas many times and even tried her luck pulling the ‘one arm bandit’ nickel slot machine. Ethel Corrine was preceded in death by her husband, mother, father and all of her siblings; Errol, Sylvia, David (aka Oz) and Grace. She is survived by five sons; Robert S., Gregory, Douglas, Charles and Keith; daughters-in-law, thirteen grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Ethel C. Jones

May 20, 1932 - December 18, 2012