Newell "Sam" Earl Jones

Sam graduated from Colby High School, Class of 1958. Following graduation, he served in the United States Navy, deploying to conflicts in Vietnam and Libya as an Aviation Warfare Specialist and a broadening assignment with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels in Pensacola, Florida. He retired from the Navy in August of 1990, after 30 years of honorable service, at which point he was one of the first enlisted Sailors to receive the Meritorious Service Medal. Sam was a loyal member of the VFM, Shriners Hospital for Children, Masonic Lodge, and a Blue Angel Alumni. In 2006 he married his wife Lavilla Deloviar, settling in Pensacola, Florida. They would have been celebrating 16 years of marriage on June 26.

He is survived by his wife Lavilla Deloviar Jones, his son Sammy Earl Jones, his step daughters Cheska Deloviar, Shalatelle Deloviar, Marisol Crews, and Ivette Pruett, grandsons Quinton Moody, Zachary Birney, Liam Deloviar Jones, and granddaughters Marissa Brewer, Megan Moody Brown, and Brianna Birney. In addition, he is survived by his brother Richard Jones and sisters Lorraine Kilgore, Kathleen Sirota, and Linda Kistler.

A Remembrance Service will be held at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Tuesday, June 21 at Oak Lawn Funeral Home, 619 N. New Warrington Road, Pensacola, FL 32506. With Funeral Service immediately following at

4:00 pm.

There will be a Burial Service beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, June 24, at the Baalmann Mortuary, 190 S. Franklin Ave. Colby, KS 67701, where he will be laid to rest under full military honors.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation to Shriner's Crippled Children's fund.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.oaklawnfunerals.com for the Jones family.