Dorothy Jean Jones Carr

Dorothy Jean Jones Carr, 84, passed October 16, 2021, at Oakdale Nursing Home in Judsonia, AR. She spent her later years on the Little Red River located on Rainbow Island near Pangburn, AR. Visitation will be Thursday, October 21, 2021 from 12:30pm to 2:00pm with the funeral service to follow at 2:00pm at Pate-Jones Funeral Home in Senatobia, MS, with Minister Mike Jones officiating.  

Born December 17, 1936 in Crenshaw, MS, to the late Leonard and Troy Rowe Jones, Mrs. Carr retired from Dover Elevator where she worked in estimating and also worked twenty years at Caldwell & Meacham Insurance in Senatobia, MS.  She was a member of Senatobia Church of Christ and loved to have family around, especially for the holidays.  She loved to dance around the house, travel with her girls on girls only trips and enjoyed bird watching.  Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her late husband Lt. Colonel James Richard Carr, her brother, Mitchell Jones and sister, Nancy Jones Babb and longtime friend and companion Vennie Rhodes.

Survivors include Bobby (Jeanie) Carr, Tim (Donna) Carr, Richard (Pam) Carr, Billy (Angie) Carr, Dianne (David) Carr Camp, Victoria (Jay) Carr Flaherty, Amy (David Cozart) Carr; 10 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren; 2 great-great grandchildren; one sister, Helen Jones, three brothers, Harold Jones, Butch Jones, Charles Jones.

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