Vacation turns deadly
Neosho businessman drowns in Hawaii
John Hacker
Globe Staff Writer
10/15/05
NEOSHO, Mo. - A Neosho church is reacting with shock to the news a Neosho business man drowned Thursday while on vacation in Hawaii.
John Jones, 55, was killed and his wife, Lynn, was hospitalized with unknown injuries after a large wave struck them while they were walking on the shore of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, near the city of Hanalei, according to a written release from the Kauai Fire Department.
Mary Daubert, spokeswoman for the fire department, said in the statement the two were walking in an area known as the Queen's Bath when a large wave knocked them to a rock ledge. Lynn Jones remained on the ledge but John Jones was pulled into the ocean. The accident happened about 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Hawaii time, or about 4:45 a.m. Central Daylight Time, she said.
Daubert said lifeguards arrived on the scene with personal watercraft and took Jones to a beach where emergency workers declared him dead. Lynn Jones was rescued by firefighters from the Hanalei Fire Station and transported to Wilcox Hospital for treatment of her injuries.
The Rev. Craig Kirby-Grove, with the First Christian Church, where John Jones was an elder, said it could be the middle of next week before Lynn Jones is well enough to leave the hospital and the family is able to ship John Jones' body back to Missouri.
"This is just an unimaginable tragedy," Kirby-Grove said. "The man was a great elder and one of the great workers in our church. He was the kind of person ministers love to have. When you gave him a job, he did it and he was great about visiting other people."
Kirby-Grove said Jones was retired from La-Z-Boy and ran a small clock shop called It's Time at 212 Washington St. in Neosho.
In 2002, Jones ran for the Republican nomination for Newton County Collector but lost.
Kirby-Grove said Jones' three children live in different parts of the state and were gathering to make funeral arrangements.
John Hacker
Globe Staff Writer
10/15/05
NEOSHO, Mo. - A Neosho church is reacting with shock to the news a Neosho business man drowned Thursday while on vacation in Hawaii.
John Jones, 55, was killed and his wife, Lynn, was hospitalized with unknown injuries after a large wave struck them while they were walking on the shore of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, near the city of Hanalei, according to a written release from the Kauai Fire Department.
Mary Daubert, spokeswoman for the fire department, said in the statement the two were walking in an area known as the Queen's Bath when a large wave knocked them to a rock ledge. Lynn Jones remained on the ledge but John Jones was pulled into the ocean. The accident happened about 9:45 a.m. Thursday, Hawaii time, or about 4:45 a.m. Central Daylight Time, she said.
Daubert said lifeguards arrived on the scene with personal watercraft and took Jones to a beach where emergency workers declared him dead. Lynn Jones was rescued by firefighters from the Hanalei Fire Station and transported to Wilcox Hospital for treatment of her injuries.
The Rev. Craig Kirby-Grove, with the First Christian Church, where John Jones was an elder, said it could be the middle of next week before Lynn Jones is well enough to leave the hospital and the family is able to ship John Jones' body back to Missouri.
"This is just an unimaginable tragedy," Kirby-Grove said. "The man was a great elder and one of the great workers in our church. He was the kind of person ministers love to have. When you gave him a job, he did it and he was great about visiting other people."
Kirby-Grove said Jones was retired from La-Z-Boy and ran a small clock shop called It's Time at 212 Washington St. in Neosho.
In 2002, Jones ran for the Republican nomination for Newton County Collector but lost.
Kirby-Grove said Jones' three children live in different parts of the state and were gathering to make funeral arrangements.
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