Evelyn "Ebbie" Petrea Jones

Mrs. Evelyn Petrea Jones, age 93, of Concord, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 surrounded by her family.

The family will receive friends from 5 to 6 pm Tuesday, January 25 at Wilkinson Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held in the chapel at 6 pm with Rev. Marc Monte officiating. A private burial will be held for the family.

“Ebbie” as she was lovingly called, was born May 16, 1928, a daughter of the late Floyd and Maggie Petrea. She was also preceded in death by her husband, James Harry Jones, Sr., and her son, James “Jim” Harry Jones, Jr.

Evelyn graduated from Winecoff High School and Piedmont Bible College. She then pursued her career as a wife, mother, and homemaker.

Evelyn never met a stranger. A stranger was just someone she had yet to meet. She exemplified Christ by loving, sharing, and caring for her family, her old friends, and the new friends she had just met in the produce aisle. If you knew Ebbie, you knew she was quick to love and slow to anger. A true Proverbs 31 woman, she will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.

Those left to cherish her memory are her children, Margaret Jones and husband, Ronnie of Tabor City, NC, Joy McClamrock and husband, Rick, John Jones and wife Suzie and Jennie Mullis and husband, Chip, all of Concord; grandchildren, Meredith Lay, Adam Jones, Lauren Richardson, Anne Taylor Jones, Jordan McClamrock, Joseph McClamrock, Molly Lockhart, Amanda Ross, and Hannah Lindsey; great-grandchildren, Emma Ann, Dunkin, and Jones Lay, Brady, Laura, and Linken Jones, Lawson, John Hudson, and Maggie Richardson, Lucas, Holden, and Oliver Lockhart, Ella, Cole, and Eli Ross, Annah and Stella Lindsey.