Bernal R. Jones

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Name: Bernal R. Jones
Location of Birth: Grand Rapids, Minnesota
Date of Birth: September 6, 1921
Date of Death: May 14, 1979 (57 years old)
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Bernal served with the United States Army in Newfoundland.

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World War II

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Bernal attended the local schools and was a lifelong resident of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

He retired from the Blandin Paper Company in Grand Rapids, Minnesota because of illness.

Bernal was a member of Grace Bible Chapel and the Quarter Century Club of Blandin Paper Company in Grand Rapids, Minnesota.

Survivors are his wife, Evelyn; two sons, Raymond and Edwin; two daughters, Mrs. Laverne (Joanne) Van Quekelberg and Mrs. Roger (Joyce) Erickson; a brother, Morris; three sisters, Josephine, Winnie, and Mrs. Garland (Vera) Underwood; and nine grandchildren.

Bernal died at Itasca Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and is buried in Harris Cemetery at Grand Rapids, Minnesota. (Plot 1.8.3.7)

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