Winslow Jones

OBITUARY

Winslow Dalley Jones, (86), of Draper, Utah passed away on October 6, 2024. Born in Lovell, Wyoming June 11, 1938 to Joseph Melling Jones and Leah Dalley. He grew up in Draper, Utah and joined the National Guard before graduating from High School. Later he enlisted in the Army before he was drafted. He was a Veteran of the Vietnam War and completed his 20 years of services to earn his Military retirement. Winslow drove truck for many years following his military service until an accident left him unable to continue in that line of work. Winslow went back to school and graduated with Honors with his Associates of Applied Sciences in Accounting at 62 years young. He is proceeded in death by his wife Glenda Turner Jones. He leaves behind many family members and friends that loved and cared for him and will miss him dearly.

Services will be held at McDougal Funeral Home in Taylorsville, Utah on October 18, 2024. Viewing will be from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM with a brief service from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Interment will be at the Utah Veterans Cemetery & Memorial Park at Camp Williams at 12:30 PM.

LIFE STORY

Winslow, he preferred to be called Windy, was born in Lovell, Wyoming to Joseph Melling Jones and Leah (Dalley) Jones on June 11, 1938. The family moved back to Kanab, Utah where his mother's family was from when Windy was 7. In 1950 the family moved to Draper, Utah when he was 12. It was there that they worked for SAP & SAP caring for a fruit orchard east of the city.

Windy joined the National Guard before he graduated from High School in 1956. Following graduation he left for Basic Training with his friends, and soon to be brothers-in-law, Harold and Howard Allen. He later went on to enlist in the Army full-time. He was sent to Korea in 1964 to 1965 and after finishing that tour of duty he took his family to Fort Lewis, Washington to train with his artillery unit before being sent to Vietnam for a year from 1966 to 1967 to serve "boots on the ground". Windy remained in the Army until 1971. He was discharged after 18 years of service with the rank of Captain.

Once he was a civilian, he went back to driving truck. It was during a conversation with a fellow trucker and veteran that he decided to go back into the National Guard to complete his 20 years of military service and be able to receive his Military Benefits.

He had married his High School girlfriend in 1958 and they raised 4 children together until their divorce in 1974. It wasn't until the mid 1990's that he finally met the love of his life, Glenda Turner. They were married December 20, 1997. Ten days after they were married, on December 31, 1997, Winslow was involved in a horrible accident as he was hauling a triple trailer north on I-15 to Pocatello, Idaho. Years later, when he sat down to write down his memories of the accident, he wrote "I kept having the feeling that I should not go, but I had not made arrangements to take the trip off, so I felt obliged to fulfill my responsibilities." As he was passing Inkom, Idaho he writes "It was at about that point where disaster struck. From what can be pieced together, I became unconscious, left the north bound lanes of traffic, crossed the median, crossed the south bound lanes of traffic, took out about sixty-five feet of guard rail, left the ground for about sixty-five feet, and ended up over the side of the freeway embankment in a very precarious position." He was trapped in the wreckage of the truck for several hours while they worked to free him. They took him to the hospital in Pocatello. Once they had assessed him, they contacted Glenda to let her know that when she arrived, she should expect to find him paralyzed, but that they had not been able to determine the full extent of his injuries. They found that he had severed 3 of the 4 tendons in his right hand, crushed the 7th cervical vertebrae in his neck, and lost his vision in his left eye.

Winslow underwent multiple surgeries to stabilize his neck and regain the use of his right hand. Unfortunately, they were not able to restore the sight in his left eye due to the injury to the optic nerve. Because of those injuries he would not be able to return to driving truck for a living, so he was put through college by Workers Comp and graduated with Honors with an Associates of Applied Sciences in Accounting in 2000. He was able to regain his independence, go back to work, be with his family, and enjoy his life.

Winslow and Glenda were sealed in the Jordan River Temple on Valentine's Day of 2003. They went on to have many wonderful adventures - taking cruises, enjoyed trips with family and friends, and becoming Camp Hosts just to name a few. They stayed in Utah during the summers and went to Yuma, Arizona for the winters hauling their fifth wheel trailer back and forth.

Glenda preceded Winslow in death, and he has had been lonely without her. As his health declined over the last year, he worried that he was becoming a burden to those around him, and he didn't want to live like an invalid. He said many times that he just wanted to be with his wife.

He always felt that he was born in exile, and he didn't want to die that way - alone. It was difficult for him to have to leave his home and move into an Assisted Living Facility. When he passed, he was surrounded by people that loved and cared for him, both on this side of the veil and the other, I hope he felt that and knows that he wasn't alone.

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