Sandra Dell Jones

Sandra Dell Dickey Jones of Elgin, Texas passed away peacefully on November 20, 2014 at the age of 76.

She was born on October 8, 1938 in Brownwood, Texas. After attending public school in Brownwood. Sandra obtained her GED and attended Lamar University in Port Arthur, Texas, graduating with a Technical Arts degree in Real Estate in 1973. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin after only two and a half years study and graduated, with honors, in 1980. She was also a member of the National Honor Society in Psychology while attending the University of Texas.

Sandra worked as a successful realtor and broker, owning her own real estate company for many years. She worked as the Director of DAHS (Day Activity and Health Services) for Combined Community Action before establishing the Elgin Adult Daycare Center in 1982. Sandra also worked as a case manager for the Texas Department of Human Services. She was an active member of the community. She was a member of the Texas Ex Alumni Association, the Texas Association of Realtors, the Northeast Texas Writers’ Association, the American Rose Society, the Bastrop County Rose Society, the Rose Hybridizer’s Association, the Elgin Garden Club and the First Presbyterian Church.

She had countless interests including writing; painting; travel; growing, breeding and propagating roses; gardening; photography; chicken and goat farming and, most of all, people. Sandra won numerous awards for her photography, poetry, essays and short stories as well as canning and preserving foods, quilting and needlework. Of her many accomplishments, she was especially proud of being the founder of the Bastrop County Rose Society. She especially loved to travel and during her lifetime traveled to many of the United States including Hawaii and Alaska. She also enjoyed trips to Canada, British Columbia and Europe.

Sandra touched many lives. She was a loving, kind and generous mother, wife, sister, grandmother, and friend. She especially loved her family. Those left to cherish her memory are her son, Robert “Jody” Pounds; her daughter, Mandy Vana; sisters, Judy Eatman and Carolyn Reed; brother, Mike Dickey; step-children, Jana, Kelly, David, Mike, Phylliss and Kim; and her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Jones; her mother, Mary June Cox; her father, Howard Dickey and step-father, Herman Cloud.

The family would like to personally thank Aseracare Hospice of Bastrop and the staff on the Generations Unit at the Lost Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for providing extraordinary care, delivered with great compassion when Sandra lived at the nursing center.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Providence-Jones Family Funeral Home, located at 604 Hwy 95 in Elgin on Monday, November 24th at 10:00 a.m. A Reception will follow the Memorial Service at the First National Bank Community Room. Memorial donations may be made in Sandra’s name to the Bastrop County Rose Society.

Arrangements and care entrusted to Providence-Jones Family Funeral Home