Wednesday, January 27, 1999
Retired judge of appeals court dead at 72
BY KEVIN ALDRIDGE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — A retired Warren County appeals court judge died Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head at his Drake Road home in Turtlecreek Township.
Fred E. Jones, of Lebanon, had been enduring a lengthy battle with prostate cancer at the time of his death. He was 72.
“He had prostate cancer that turned into cancer of the spine and bones,” said Warren County Commissioner Pat South, his niece. “He was taking treatments for that when he developed a case of pneumonia. Over the past two weeks, he had been in and out of the hospital.”
Lt. Jerry Mays, head of the criminal investigations section of the Warren County Sheriff's Department, confirmed Mr. Jones' death was a suicide.
Mr. Jones graduated from Lebanon High School at the top of his class in 1946. He went on to graduate from Chase Law School in 1951 and opened a practice the same year.
In 1954, he began a four-year term as assistant prosecutor in Warren County. Two years later, he was elected county prosecutor.
Mr. Jones ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1970. In 1982, he was appointed to the 12th District Court of Appeals, and successfully ran again in 1988. He retired at the end of his second six-year term.
He was a former partner in Young & Jones, and Jones, Kaufman & Jones law firms, both in Lebanon. Mr. Jones also was a former Warren County Republican Party chairman.
Mr. Jones is survived by his wife Colleen, son, Daniel of Lebanon; daughters, Barbara Patterson of Sarasota, Fla., and Jennifer Jones of Santa Rosa, Calif.; a sister, Betty Schneider of Lebanon; and five grandchildren.
Visititation, 5 to 9 p.m. today at the Oswald-Hoskins Funeral Home in Lebanon. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Donations can be made to the American Cancer Society, 11117 Kenwood Road, Cincinnati, 45242-1817, or the Fred E. Jones Law School Scholarship, c/o Lebanon Citizens National Bank, P.O. Box 59, Lebanon, 45036.
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