On this day, one hundred years ago…

Dad’s parents: Lalon Ira Jones (1901-1934) and Gladys Pearl Johnson (1900-1972).

Calvin Marshall Jones was born October 9, 1919, in Clarkia, Idaho. He always liked the symmetry of his birth date: Ten, nine, nineteen, nineteen. He liked to use those numbers when playing keno or the lottery, and often won with them (or so he claimed). I imagine he got a kick out of his death date, too: Fourth of July, 1997.

Dad and his brother Bob.

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