JONES, Cynthia Irene (nee Culbard)
November 30, 1921 – October 31, 2011
Cynthia was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, the second child to parents Francis and Paula Culbard and the eldest of 5 girls. The Culbard family lived in West Vancouver until Cynthia was seven years old and then moved to Read Island in the Discovery Islands group in British Columbia where they homesteaded. She married the love of her life, Bud Jones, and raised five sons and one daughter. When leaving Read Island they moved to the lower mainland and then Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast only to return to the Campbell River area the last ten years. Cynthia was predeceased by her husband Merril (Bud) Jones, son Craig Jones, granddaughter Kim Jones, grandsons Allen Jones and Lorne Jr., sister Paula Hughes and brother Captain Frank Culbard. She will be greatly missed by her sons Howard (Irene), Capt Bud (Marie), Norman (Susan), Capt Lorne (Debbie), and daughter Cyndie, sisters Diana Peters, Sheila Brietenbach, and Anne Matthews, many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and close friends.
A funeral service will be held at St Peter’s Anglican Church at 228 Dogwood Street, Campbell River, BC, November 10, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. followed by a reception in the church hall.
Elk Falls Crematorium
Island Funeral Services
250-287-3366