Dorothy Inez Hoffman Jones, Will be Remembered

Our Mother, Dorothy Inez Hoffman Jones, daughter of Cecil L Jones and Inez Mae Scott, was born 29 June 1920 at Little Bear, Platte Co. Wyoming. She left this earth to go home 10 January 2011 at Valley Ford, Sonoma Co., Califonria. 

She bore 4 living children and numerous grandchildren, and even more great and great great grandchildren.

Family spreads all over the west coast and mid west. Her lineage is very early America with a tie to Pocahontas and Thomas Rolfe. We are attempting to verify also that Catherine Fry, Henry Huffman's 2nd wife was Indian also. We descend from Henry and Catherine Fry Huffman/Hoffman, also.Pocahontas Biography (Political Figure/Legendary Character) — Infop...

  She was also the descendant of Richard Higgins 1596-1669, Richard Stout, Leonhardt Plantz/Plants,

Joseph Ridgeway and Hannah Allen Ridgeway, John Haines and Elizabeth Stanford, John Bourton and Annie Kinton, Henry Burr and Elizabeth Hudson, Uhllerik Stollar, George Ely (Ealy), Eva C Strohschnieder (Strosnider), Moreen Duvall of Middle Plantation, Capt William Jones of MD, Elizabeth Talbot, Abigail Elizabeth Powell,  Rev. Joseph Patterson,

Elizabeth Ritchey/Richey, Thomas Scott of Halifax Co., VA, Sophia Murray of same, Matthew Morrow and Francis Burnett, Tuttle line from CT., New England, James Tuttle(1738 -1798) and Rebecca Washburn, Harriet Lewis of Virginia,

( Pittsylvania area), Samuel Langdon (1763-1861), Edmund Brammer (1767-1822 ), John Lee and Francis Ward,(Patrick Co. VA), John Brammer and Mary Burgess of Patrick Co. VA., Isaac Warden 1770, PA to OH, Jeanette McCune, Thomas Fuller 1750-1824, from Maryland to OH to ILL.wife Lydia Hayes, some lines are farther back some stop where posted.

She was loved by her family each in their own way. She taught 4-H in the community and later worked at  Tomales High School in the cafeteria. She loved the area where she lived for its fresh clean air and the ocean breeze residual she could get after having lived on Red Hill Road in Petaluma Ca area and cooking almost every summer.

We also lived on D St extension, same road as above just different name closer to town. Here we had cars come off the corner and come down into our yard and near the bedroom my sis and I slept in.  We still cooked in the sumer time. We had a horrid fire that came from the other side of the ridge and did major damage to the dairy we lived on and  killed some of the chickens they raised to sell for eggs. Here we did not lose our home but the fields were black for a long long time and I do not think the rebuilt all the buildings that burned. 

The home in Valley Ford nearly burned and they lost their new Grade A dairy barn the day before they were to  milk in it. Lost buildings and sheds etc, but the big barn built 1854 and house withstood the fire. Thanks to all the people in the community that helped to fight the blaze.  They could have lost the entire town that weekend.

 I lived away from home with this happened but it was very sad to go home and see the grounds so black and filled with soot.

Mom walked 12 miles to school each day, 6 each way. She learned this in a math class and went home and told her Mom how far they were walking.  Grandma Inez was surprised of the distance.

She shared many stories which I am attempting to get on paper and off a recorder. We taped our trip to the midwest in 1993 several little tapes. I am not sure which shared more, Mom or Dad. 

Mom lost Dad in 1995 from a heart attack in Santa Rosa at his favorite eatery.  She will be most missed by her stories and humor and love of life.