, 1926-07-21
PAT JONES BURIED
WITH MILITARY HONORS
On Tuesday at Observation-Disclosures
to be Inferred at Basin,
Wyoming.

With n of the largest funerals
ever held in Cody, Roy "Pat" Jones
victim of an auto accident Sunday
morning, was laid to rest in River
side cemetery on Tuesday afternoon
with full military honors by his
"buddies" of Fred Coe Post, Amer
lean Legion.
Under the flag which he gallant
ly fought for during the war, all
that was left of Pat Jones was
taken from Vogel's funeral chapel,
placed on the army caisson, me
hauled to the Methodist church
where services were conducted by
Rev. G. S. Upton. At the end of
the service. Ernest ]. Goppert, COM
mander of Fred Coe Post read a
short obituary of deceased, giving
his splendid war record, after which
the body was again taken on the
caisson to Riverside, where with
full military honors it was lowered
to its last resting place.
Never in Cody has there been
displayed the love and esteem which
was accorded this young soldier.
Pat was loved and admired by
everyone in every station of life,
and his friends were numbered by
those who knew him. When the
time came for paying this last earth
ly tribute, more than a hundred
cars filled with sorrowing friends
followed his body to Riverside, and
bowed heads in mourning the IN
timely passing of a friend.
Roy Virgil ions.
Roy Virgil Jones, who was known
to all as just pat" was born in
Beacon, Iowa, on March 8, 1897.
and attended the public schools in
the towns where his parents lived
in Iowa. On October 3rd, 1917,
when but twenty years old, he en-
listed in the army for the Euro
pean conflict, and as a private first
in Co. A., 31st u. S. Infan-
try, saw service in the PHILIPPINES
and in Siberian-Russia. "Pat" was
with that American contingent
as the Siberian Wolf
Hounds which made history in.
Russia, and by their vaIor and true
A~mericanism withstood many an
onslaught of the crafty Bolshevik..
He fought in two engagements
with the Red Guards and in the
battle of Romanovka, Siberia, on
June 8, 1919, won three medals
Tor his heroic conduct. He was
decorated with the American Dis
tinguished Service Cross; the Brit
ish Distinguished Conduct Medal
and the italian Cross of Merit of
War. One of his citations is found
in Government Orders 1913 u. S.
War Department, dated December
20, 1919, which reads as follows:
(Roy v. ions. (Army serial No.
52275S) private first class, Co. A..
list Infantry-For extraordinary
in action near Romanov-
ka, Siberia, June 25, 1919. Tho
early in action, he con-
unued to operate his automatic
rifle throughout the fght.")
He was discharged at camp
Dodge, Iowa, in Nov. 1919. and
to Cody, Wyoming, to make
nome with his parents, who
mad moved here during the period
OIL his absence in the service. He
was employed at one time in the
CODY Trading Company hardware
department, and later became a me
at the Yellowstone Garage.
"here ne was a valuable employee
the time of his death.
On July rs, 1921, he was mar
rled to Bertha Fuqua, and to this
union was born a daughter. Flor
ence, four years old. and a son.
Leroy, two years old. At the
time of his death he was 20 years
4 month and 9 days old.
Besides his wife and children de-
ceased is survived by his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jones, a broth
Frank e. Jones, and sister,
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