Obituary

Rosa Lee Miller Jones LUBBOCK -- Services for Rosa Lee Miller Jones, 89, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in W.W. Rix Chapel with her grandson, Roy B. Carnes III officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Rix Funeral Directors of Lubbock. Mrs. Jones died Friday, Nov. 18, 2005, at the Garrison Center in Lubbock. She was born Sept. 18, 1916, in Archer City to Delia and Grover C. Lewis and attended schools in the Bar Wise Community. She married Warren D. Miller in a double-ring ceremony with D's twin brother, Eugene V. Miller and her best friend, Hazel Wright in Vernon on Jan. 6, 1935. They moved to Plainview in 1944 where they operated Miller Food until D's death in 1970. She also was a real estate agent. She married Henry Jones and moved to Houston in 1973 where she continued her real estate career until retirement in 1985 when they moved to Lubbock. She was an active member of Northside Church of Christ where she made shut-in visits, sitting with patients at the hospital and as funeral food coordinator. She also cared for the elderly. Survivors include three daughters and two sons-in-law, Jerry Dee Smith and husband Tim of Dallas, Charlotte Carnes and husband Roy of Lubbock, and Deborah Jo Miller of Dallas; one son and daughter-in-law, Dale Miller and wife Ava of Argyle; one sister, Mary Jo Adams of Houston; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Four sisters and a granddaughter are deceased. The family will receive friends from 3:30-5:30 p.m. today at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Lubbock, 1102 Slide Rd., Ste. 3, Lubbock, TX 79416, or to Garrison Center, 3710 Fourth St., Lubbock, TX 79415. To send online condolences go to www.rixfd.com.