“The turn-out wasn’t just because he was a policeman, he was respected as a person,” said Father Dooner. “He was innately good and it flowed out of him naturally. He was a very pleasant man who brightened everybody’s day with a smile.”
Jones, whose wife and children are Catholic, became Catholic himself several years ago, Father Dooner said. “He lived out his call to serve Jesus Christ as a police officer.”
Chris Conaway, an administrative assistant at Our Lady of Grace and a neighbor to the Jones family, remembers his squad car would be outside the school, and she would wave. “I would kid him about how he looked about 12 years old,” she recalls. Conaway also taught CCD to Julianne and remembers how she would sometimes worry about her father’s safety.
When Conaway, whose own husband died Jan. 5, heard the news of the tragic accident, she went to the Jones house to console Suzanne. “She wound up consoling me,” she said. “They are just wonderful people.”
Immediately after her husband’s death, Suzanne Jones released his organs for donation. Donors were found for both of his kidneys; one was successfully implanted into a former U.S. Navy buddy.
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The Bucks County Fraternal Order of Police has established a memorial trust fund in his memory. Donations may be sent to the Philadelphia Police and Fire Credit Union, 852 E. Street Road, Warminster, PA 18974.
Printed with permission from The Catholic Standard & Times, newspaper for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.