Wilma Rose Jones

Memorial Services for Wilma Rose Jones will be held on Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 1:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Alma, Nebraska with Jane Blum, CLM officiating. Inurnment will follow at the Alma Cemetery, beside her beloved husband, Billy J. Jones, with Military Honors Provided by the Fay Cady American Legion Post #118 of Alma.

Wilma Rose (Brugh) Jones, age 88 years, went to her heavenly home on Friday, September 16, 2016 at her home in Washington, Kansas. She was born January 4, 1928, at Republican City, Nebraska to Mable Maye Triplett and Ralph Waldo Brugh. Wilma attended grade school at Carter Country School and Alma schools, graduating from Alma High School in 1945. She then entered Mary Lanning School of Nursing in 1948 and graduated as an Army Cadet Registered Nurse. After a long career in nursing, she retired in 1987.

Wilma was married to Billy J. Jones of Alma and to this union were born three
children: Betty Jones Hoosier, Valerie Jones Frager and Billy Morton Jones. She and the children traveled to many states and outside the United States, to be with Bill in the pipeline industry.

Wilma loved to travel and enjoyed the historic sites and was a very patriotic American.

Wilma was preceded in death by a grandson, Justin and a granddaughter, Caitlin Rose.

She is survived by her two daughters and son: Betty Hoosier and her husband, Dale of Lincoln, Nebraska, Valerie Frager and her husband, Steve of Lincoln and Billy Jones and Judy Bergantino of Tallahassee, Florida; four grandchildren: Stephanie Zillig and her husband, Eric, Nick Frager and his wife, Rachel, Sabre Zikmund and Jillian Tomes; and was very blessed to have six greatgrandchildren.

There will be no Visitation or Memorial Book Signing. The family is honoring Wilma's wish for cremation.

A memorial has been established in Wilma's honor and will be designated at a later date.
Expressions of caring and kindness can be sent to the family at www.nelsonbauerfh.com
The Bauer-Torrey & Mach Funeral Home in Alma is in charge of the arrangements.