Artemas W. Jones, a retired printer for McCormick & Co., died Friday of cancer at his home on Harman Avenue. He was 84.

Services for Mr. Jones were being held today at the Hubbard Funeral Home, 4107 Wilkens Ave.

He retired in 1972 after working at McCormick since 1947. During World War II, he worked at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard at Fairfield.

A Native of Linn, W.Va., he was a graduate of what is now Glenville State College in West Virginia. He taught in a one-room school in Linn before moving to Baltimore in 1941.

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, the former Clarice Heater; three daughters, Rita Anne Jones of Colorado Springs, Colo., Rosalee Cantrell of Glen Burnie and Janet Cantone of Berkeley Springs, W.Va.; a sister, Belva Snyder of Buckhannon, W.Va.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.