Malcolm D.

Jones, Iii

Malcolm Dudley Jones III, age 84, passed away peacefully in his home in Meridian, ID on Tuesday, March 7, 2022, surrounded by family. He was born on November 1, 1937, in Louisville Kentucky to Malcolm Dudley Jones Jr of Quitman, Georgia and his wife Betty Lee Jeffers of Arkansas City, KS.

As a young man, Mac served in the US Army. He graduated with highest honors from Oklahoma Military Academy and earned an engineering degree from Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA. The time he spent with his fraternity brothers of Kappa Sigma was one of the highlights of his life! He worked as an industrial engineer most of his married life in South Carolina. He then moved to West Virginia where helped start up an aluminum recycling plant. After the death of his wife, he moved to McClean, VA where he did a great deal of genealogical research and enjoyed retirement.

Mac traveled the world but spent the longest period in Spartanburg, SC where he and his wife, Jayne Allen Burnette, raised their three children, Malcolm Dudley "Rusty" Jones IV, Richard Allen Jones, and Elizabeth Wenley Jones. He was a devoted father and loving husband. Mac enjoyed his family, socializing with his friends, his service at The Episcopal Church of the Advent, designing and building amazing things, genealogy research, and various outdoor activities including Boy Scouts, hiking, spelunking, camping, sailing, hang gliding, parasailing, white water rafting, skiing, and any high adventure outdoor activity he could find.

He was predeceased by his parents', "Doc" and Betty; older sister, Rosalee Mae Jones; Jayne, wife of 31 years; and nephew, John Edward Haldi II. He leaves behind three children, ten grandchildren and one great-grandson, his older sister, one nephew and three grandnieces.  Malcolm Dudley Jones IV (Ma. Minerva Hernandez Trejo) and their son Malcolm Dudley V of Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico; Richard Allen Jones (Patricia) and his two children Zachary Allen and Hailee Elizabeth of North Augusta, SC; Elizabeth Wenley (Dr. Edward Jong Wook Kim) and their 7 children Thomas Johnathon of WA, Courtney Elizabeth and her son Andre Leon Ramirez of Boise, ID, Benjamin Randolph, Edward Harrison, Matthew Park, Samuel Tate and Carrie Jayne of Meridian, ID; and his sister and brother-in-law Betty Anne (Robert William Haldi) of Vonore, TN and their youngest son, Hamilton Randolph "Randy" Haldi (Melinda Suzanne Russell) and their three daughters, Kaelyn Suzanne, Kyleigh Rebecca and Kara Ashlyn of Myrtle Beach, SC.

He will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved him.

Graveside services will be held at the Jones Family Cemetery at Greenwood Plantation in Thomasville, GA on Sunday, March 20, 2022 at 2:00 pm. A Visitation will be held prior to the service from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at Whiddon Shiver Funeral Home Chapel.