Ovieda Hammond Jacokes

Mrs. Jacokes was a former resident of Malvern Hills and was married to Dr. J. Warner Jacokes, who died in 1979. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Elizabeth Jacokes, and a granddaughter, Debra Elizabeth Jones.

She was a 1932 graduate of Trinity College in Washington, DC, and was a former employee of American Enka and Bon Marche Department Store. She was a member of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church and the Catholic Daughters of America and a former member of the Chatmore Club. Mrs. Jacokes was also a former director of the Buncombe County Heart Fund.

She is survived by two daughters, Dottie Jones and her husband David of Stafford, VA, and Peggy Lyon of Norman, OK; five grandsons, Kevin Jones of Athens, GA, Christopher Jones of Stafford, Thomas and David Lyon of Dallas, TX, and James Lyonfields of Baldwin, MO; and three great-grandchildren, Aja, Jacob, and Thomas Lyonfields.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 am Thursday at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery.

Her family will receive friends from 6:30 - 8 pm Wednesday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue.

Memorials may be made to the Washington Metro Area Chapter, Huntington’s Disease Society of America, 8303 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 210, Fairfax, VA 22031.