Mrs. June Jones Saxon

June 9, 1926 - January 17, 2021

Graveside Funeral services for Mrs. June Jones Saxon, 94, of Waskom, Texas will be 3:00 p.m. Saturday January 23, 2021 at the Deadwood Cemetery with Bro. Marshall Moorhead officiating. Burial will follow under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation will be 5-7:00 p.m. Friday January, 22, 2021 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home. Mrs. June Nelson Jones Saxon was born June 9, 1926 in Sudan, Texas. She passed this life January 17, 2021 peacefully at her son’s Waskom, Texas home. June was the youngest of 13 children born to the marriage of Thomas Ad and Alice Hull Nelson. She was a graduate of Carthage High School. June married T.V. Jones, and to the union came one son. Mrs. Jones Saxon worked as a secretary to Director of Nursing at Brentwood Hospital, as well as the Willis Knighton business office. She served as a bookkeeper to her husband’s business, T.V. Jones Construction Company. She was a longtime member of the Ford Park Baptist Church in Shreveport during the many years she lived there and the Carthage Missionary Baptist Church living in Carthage, Texas. She is preceded in death by her first husband T.V. Jones and second husband Douglas Saxon; seven brothers, Allen Nelson, Tom Nelson, Ivan Nelson, Bernard Nelson, Reese Nelson, Leonard Nelson, Weldon “Joe” Nelson; sisters, Sarah Williams, Vivian Crosby, Jewel Crossland, Lillian Brooks, and Jeanette Crnko. Mrs. Saxon leaves behind Ken and Pat Jones; grandchildren, Charles Jones and Denise Berry; great grandchildren, Hannah and Spencer Berry; numerous other relatives and a host of friends.