Janet "Sunny" Bixby Day Jones

Midland, Texas: Janet " Sunny" Bixby Day Jones passed away peacefully on December 14, 2008. Born to Gertrude Medlin Young and Allen Smith Bixby in Indianapolis, Indiana and reared in Cleveland, Ohio, she was always called "Sunny" because of her happy disposition. She moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1938 where in 1940 she married her husband of 62 years, Weldon M. Jones, a banker. In 1955 they moved with their two children to San Angelo, Texas where Mr. Jones served as president of the San Angelo National Bank until his retirement in 1973. After his death in 2001, Sunny moved to Manor Park in Midland.Survivors include her daughter, Diana Jones Wynne and husband Robert L. Wynne of Houston and her son Don B. Jones and his wife Bettye Jones of Midland; grandchildren Brendon Wynne of Tucson, Arizona, Cameron Wynne and wife Dorothy of Austin, Angela Jones Lee and husband James T. Lee of Houston, and Robert L. Jones of Houston; great grandchildren Nicole Day Wynne and James Pate Lee.We wish to express our deep gratitude and heartfelt thanks to Louisa Naverette, Rosalinda Mindling and Veronica Exparza for their tender care and loving kindness to Sunny for the past year.At Sunny's request there will be no service.Burial will take place at 2:00pm, Friday, December 19, 2008 at Fairmount Cemetery, 1120 West Avenue N, San Angelo, Texas.Memorials may be made to Meals for the Elderly, 310 East Houston Harte Expy., San Angelo, Texas 76903.Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Midland. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com"The Next Room"Death is nothing at all…I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you. Whatever we were to each other that we are still. Call me by my own familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed, at the little jokes we always enjoyed together.Play, smile, think of me…Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means ALL that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind, because I am out of sight!.I am waiting for you. For an eternal "somewhere" very near..just 'round the corner. All is well.-Canon Henry Scott Holland,