For Marie Jones

Thu, 09/30/2021 - 09:36

September 30, 2021

A funeral service for Marie Frances Therese Eileen McDonald Fitzgerald Jones will be held on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk, where she was the first child to be baptized and where she was married to William Fitzgerald. Burial will follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery in East Hampton.

Her family will receive visitors on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Mrs. Jones, who was 89, died at home in Port Charlotte, Fla., on Sept. 15. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

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