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In Memory of Gertrude Jones
Posted on November 15, 2003 in Campaign 2004
A Louisiana woman who died on August 25 asked that mourners send no flowers:
Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones, 81, passed away on August 25, 2003, under the loving care of the nursing aides of Heritage Manor of Mandeville, Louisiana. She was a native of Lebanon, KY. She was a retired Vice President of Georgia International Life Insurance Company of Atlanta, GA. Her husband, Warren K. Jones predeceased her. Two daughters survive her: Dawn Hunt and her live-in boyfriend, Roland, of Mandeville, LA; and Melba Kovalak and her husband, Drew Kovalak, of Woodbury, MN. Three sisters, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren, also survive her. Funeral services were held in Louisville, KY. Memorial gifts may be made to any organization that seeks the removal of President George Bush from office.
Two death notices appeared: one on August 27 in Kentucky and the other on October 2 in Lousiana. Conservatives were quick to notice that the first death notice does not include the anti-Bush clause and branded the second — which appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune — as a fake. The Times asked Jones’s daughter about the authenticity of the report:
“Mama was smart and she didn’t hate George Bush. I think she just felt like he probably wasn’t up to speed for being a president,” Kovalak said. “I’m sure she could have outtalked him on almost anything.
“He’s not good for the working people, and we’ll always be working people,” Kovalak said.
“We were born working people and we will always be working people. If we won the lottery tomorrow, we’d still be working people.”
About.com urban legends coordinator David Emery believes that both notices may be genuine:
One possible explanation is that the two notices were placed at different times by different family members who didn’t consult one another (or perhaps even disagreed) on the details.
Jones was a woman ahead of her time, rising to an executive position within her company in the year 1965, apparently one of the first beneficiaries of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Unlike many people, she remembered who had helped her attain her position. She never forgot where she came from and her legacy is one of hope for the future, that we, as Americans, can pull away from the divisive and bloodthirsty domestic and international politics of this usurper administration and move once again towards the working/middle class heaven we were until the rise of Reagan and George Bush Sr.
Love your country. Put it in rehab. Vote Democratic.
Moveon’s drive to air ads setting the record straight on the Bush Presidency is one cause that qualifies as meeting Jones’s last wishes.
