[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 57 (Thursday, April 19, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E595]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      IN CELEBRATION OF THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF MR. PRINCE T. JONES

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 19, 2012

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor to extend my 
personal congratulations and Happy Birthday wishes to Mr. Prince T. 
Jones, a beloved citizen of Albany, Georgia, who turned 100 years of 
age on Sunday, April 15, 2012. On Saturday, April 14, 2012 he was 
honored by his family and friends at a celebration at Morning Side 
Assisted Living Facility in Albany, Georgia in recognition of his 100th 
birthday.
  Prince T. Jones, the youngest of six children, was born on April 15, 
1912, to Daniel Jones and Julia Fields Jones. He grew up in the tiny 
town of Barboursville, Virginia and attended public school in Orange 
County, Virginia.
  Following his academic training in the Orange County public school 
system, Mr. Jones embarked on a tenured and successful career as a 
farmer and later as a butler. He worked for several years at the 
prestigious Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. At 
the conclusion of his stint at the Farmington Country Club, he went on 
to work at Winholm Farms for 25 years before he retired in 1981.
  Always pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of 
God in Christ Jesus, in order to better improve the craft of Christian 
discipleship, he served for many years as a Sunday School Teacher; 
Chairman of the Trustee and Deacon Board; and Treasurer for the 
Ministers and Deacons Union at Blue Run Baptist Church in Somerset, 
Virginia. It is worth noting that Mr. Jones was a member of Blue Run 
Baptist Church for 88 years.
  In 1933, he married the ``woman of his dreams'' Gertrude Mary Jones. 
They remained married for 66 years and they would go on to have three 
beautiful and loving children. Mr. Jones has achieved numerous 
successes in his life, but none of this would have been possible 
without the love and support of his late wife and his children's 
devoted mother. Together their legacy set sterling examples of family 
and parenting for their sons, Dr. T. Marshall Jones and the late Arthur 
Lee Jones; daughter Gladys Jones Saddler; their nine grandchildren; 
their nine great-grandchildren; and their great-great-grandson.
  George Washington Carver once said, ``How far you go in life depends 
on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, 
sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong 
because someday in your life you will have been all of these.'' Mr. 
Jones has advanced so far in life because he never forgot these lessons 
and always kept God first.
  The race of life isn't given to the swift or to the strong, but to 
those who endure until the end. Mr. Jones has run the race of life with 
grace and dignity and God has blessed him over his lifetime.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me today in paying tribute 
to Mr. Prince T. Jones. On a personal note, I would like to not only 
congratulate Mr. Jones on becoming a distinguished centenarian but also 
express my profound admiration for his outstanding Christian 
stewardship and dedication to his church and family.
  Truly to God be the glory!

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