PIERRE, SD – Gary Allen Jones passed away on October 6, 2024. His body has been cremated and there will be no service.

Gary Allen Jones was born January 9, 1945, to Lloyd and Alvina (Anderson) Jones in Britton, SD. Gary attended school in Britton until 1955. The family then moved to Huron, where Gary graduated from Huron High School in 1963.

He married Julie Becker in Denver, Colorado, on April 15, 1970.

Gary graduated with a B S degree in Speech, Mass Communications, and English in 1975 from the University of South Dakota. He earned a Master’s Degree in School Administration in 1982 from Northern State College and a Master’s Degree in Speech Communications from the University of Lincoln at Kearney, Nebraska. He began his teaching career in Creston, Iowa. He later taught at Crazy Horse School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He then taught Speech Communications and English at Oglala Lakota College.

He is survived by his wife, Julie, of Martin, two sons, Jeffrey of Martin and Kerry of Gautier, Mississippi, a daughter, Jill (Kurt) Fisher of Weatherby, Missouri, one granddaughter, Liberty Jones, of Gautier, Mississippi, and two grandsons, Forrest and Ashar Fisher of Weatherby, Missouri, a brother, Dennis (Vickie) of Orlando, Florida, three nieces and two nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Sharon Gowdy of Denver.

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