| OBITUARY
Services set for former teacher Mable Wade Jones
Author: Anne Lineberry, Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
Services for Mable Wade Jones, former head of the physical education department
at R. L. Turner High School in Carrollton , will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at
Restland Memorial Chapel in Dallas. Burial will follow at Restland Memorial
Park.
Ms. Jones died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital of complications from cancer. She
was 87.
In the late 1920s, while earning her degree at what is now the University of
North Texas, Ms. Jones taught at a number of small schools, said her daughter,
Panita Greer.
She took a break from teaching when she married but returned to her education
career in 1950 after being recruited by Carrollton school board members, her
daughter said.
At R.L. Turner, her job included sponsoring the drill team, and she made
dramatic changes.
"She and I both thought it was a drag for them just to march across the field
and pivot," Ms. Greer said.
So Ms. Jones made up routines and had them dancing, Ms. Greer said. She said her
mother changed the skirts as well: "Her first move was to chop about 4 inches
off of them. " Ms. Greer was in the eighth grade when the drill team started
dancing. She remembers the community enjoying the change, but she also
remembered a minister preaching sermons on the subject.
Ms. Jones retired in the early 1970s. In addition to her daughter, she is
survived by a sister, Mildred Lantrip of Edgewood, Texas; two grandchildren; and
two great-grandchildren.
The Dallas Morning News - Monday, December 22, 1997
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