Lewis Williams Jones, 6 July 1906

Dr. Lewis Williams Jones, 95, of Malad, ID died April 3, 2002 in Bethesda, Maryland. He was born on July 6, 1906 in Henderson Creek, ID in the farmhouse of his parents, Joseph A. Jones and Ann Jones.

After graduating from Malad High School in 1921, he attended Idaho Technical School and Albion State Normal School, where he obtained a teaching certificate that enabled him to teach in various Idaho schools.

On August 31, 1928, he married Anna Vernal Evans, also of Malad, and their marriage was later sealed in the Logan Temple.

During the depths of the great Depression, he entered Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, UT where he earned a masters’ degree in bacteriology. After his graduation he joined the faculty as an instructor in the bacteriology department and later completed the Ph.D. program in microbiology at Stanford University. He gradually rose to the rank of a full professor and then retired as an emeritus professor in 1973.

He was recognized as an outstanding teacher in the classroom and an excellent research scientist. He published numerous scientific articles in domestic and international scientific journals and received national science grants for post doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Purdue University and Rutgers University.

He was active in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a High Priest and served in various teaching and administrative assignments.

After retiring from Utah State University, he and his wife moved back to Malad, where they lived happily until his wife’s death in 1990. In 2000 he moved to Potomac, Maryland to be with his son.

He is survived by one brother, four sisters in law, his son, Sidney, and his wife, Marlene, five grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Benson-Horsley Funeral Home in Malad on April 8, 2002. Internment was in the Malad City Cemetery.