TITLE: Madaline Fretias Jones

SOURCE: The Beaufort Gazette, May 23, 2001

SUBMITTED: The Beaufort Gazett

FORMATTED: Kim Grissom, May 2001

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Madaline Freitas Jones
Madaline Freitas Jones, 66, "The Pineapple" of "The Pineapple and the Coconut," died Friday, 
May 18, 2001, in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Ga. Funeral Mass will be 
at 11:45 a.m. today in the Post Depot Chapel, Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot, with 
burial in Beaufort National Cemetery. Mrs. Jones was born May 5, 1935, in Honolulu, a daughter 
of Alfred C. and Lydia Kalahiki Freitas. She was a member of the Post Depot Chapel for 35 years, 
where she was a CCD teacher for 31 years. She was preceded in death by two granddaughters, Amber 
Jones and Lindsie Jones. Surviving are her husband, Raymond "The Coconut" C. Jones Sr. of 
Beaufort; two sons, Raymond C. Jones Jr. of Beaufort and Parker W. Jones of Gastonia, N.C.; 
two daughters, Mary L. Partridge of Schenectady, N.Y., and Leilani T. Bessinger of Beaufort; 
a sister, Virginia Mae Gomes of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii; a brother, Joseph Freitas of North Highland,
Calif.; two stepbrothers, George Furtado and Jerry Furtado of Hawaii; two stepsisters, Odlia 
Price of Texas and Mildred Harris of El Paso, Texas; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. 

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