Edna Romaine Jones, 96, Baltimore educator
Edna Romaine Jones, a retired educator, died Sunday of a respiratory ailment at her Ashburton home. She was 96.
Beginning in 1928, Mrs. Jones spent her career in the Baltimore public school system and rose through the ranks to become divisional superintendent for East Baltimore in 1954. She retired in 1968.
In the 1940s, she was principal of William Alexander Elementary School No. 112 at Calhoun and Laurens streets in West Baltimore.
"She was a joy to work with. We had such beautiful parent-teacher meetings," said Myrtle Johnston of Baltimore, a retired pre-kindergarten teacher at William Alexander Elementary "They were standing-room-only."
Born in Baltimore, Mrs. Jones was a 1920 graduate of Douglass High School. She graduated from what then was Coppin Normal School in Baltimore, a teachers college, and continued her education at then-Morgan State College and New York University, where she obtained a master's degree.
In 1928, she married Rueben Franklin Jones, whom she met when he was a student at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Va. He also entered public education and retired as principal of Carver Vocational-Technical High School. He died in 1978.
The Joneses lived in Ashburton in Northwest Baltimore and maintained a residence at Highland Beach outside Annapolis, the summer resort where black leader Frederick Douglass had a cottage.
Mrs. Jones was a longtime member of Union Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir and had chaired the worship and women's day committees, and was a member of the Dime and Welcome circles.
She had chaired Union Baptist's day care board, which through its Harvey Johnson Head Start program serves more than 200 children. For her work, she was made chairwoman emeritus of the Head Start center.
In the 1920s, she founded the Gamma Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa Sorority, a professional association of teachers.
Services will be held at noon Saturday at Union Baptist Church, 1219 Druid Hill Ave.
She is survived by a son, Rueben Franklin Jones Jr. of Highland Beach; and several nieces and nephews.
Jean Ingelo Irwin Moore, 82, piano teacher
Jean Ingelo Irwin Moore, a Dundalk piano teacher, died Monday of heart failure at Sunrise Assisted Living in Annapolis. She was 82.
Mrs. Moore, who had lived on Mornington Road in Dundalk, began her musical education at age 9 at the Peabody Preparatory Department and took her degree from the conservatory at age 21. For many years, she taught piano and gave recitals.
She married William G. Moore, a foreman at Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s Sparrows Point plant, in 1937. He died in 1972.
The former Jean Ingelo Irwin was born in Vandergrift, Pa., and moved to Dundalk as a child.
Services are private.
She is survived by a son, Thomas G. Moore of Riva; a sister, Fonce Campbell of Jupiter, Fla.; a brother, Winston Irwin of Dundalk; two granddaughters; and a great-granddaughter.
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Pub Date: 12/31/98