"Boz": The Life of Ralph Boswell Jones (1897 - 1976)
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Epilogue
Dorothy Dorner Jones
Dorothy, Ralph’s first wife, never remarried. She remained in North Fairfield, Ohio, throughout most of her remaining life, and often visited her children and grandchildren who resided throughout the United States. In her final years she lived for a time with her daughter and son-in-law, JoAnne and Bud Kaiser, in Arizona, and later was moved to Evergreen Care Center in Medina, Ohio. She suffered from Alzheimer’s disease at the end of her life, and died at 6:59am on July 3, 1992, at the age of 94. [1]
Margaret Elizabeth Rawlings Guenther Jones
Margaret, Ralph’s second wife, also did not remarry. For a time she lived in an apartment in Cleveland, then was moved to nursing homes (Hamlet Hills and Amasa Stone) in the Cleveland area. [2] She died of heart failure in late October 1984, at the age of 86. [3] Her daughter Marjorie notes that “Boz was a wonderful person and very good to, and for, my mother. She loved him dearly and never was happy after he died.” [4]
Boswell Jones Mortuary
Karl S. Deck ran the mortuary business after Boz died, and after Mr. Deck’s death the firm was purchased by Busch Chapels of Cleveland. Thereafter the funeral home on Euclid Avenue was torn down [5] and the location was occupied by a pizza restaurant.[6]
[1] Author’s personal knowledge; death certificate, Dorothy D. Jones, Ohio Department of Health, Vital Statistics, Reg. Dist 52, Reg. No. 279.
[2] Mark Zimmerlin. Marjorie letter.
[3] Social Security Death Index, Margaret Rawlings Jones, SSN #285-01-8187; obituary in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 28 Oct 1984, pg. B11. Also, Marjorie letter.
[4] Marjorie letter.
[5] Telephone conversation, author with Mark Busch of Busch Chapels, 5 Mar 2002. Busch Chapels retained the business records of Boswell Jones Mortuary, as of March 2002.