![]() A staunch community activist throughout her adult life, she met husband John, a native of Macon, Georgia, in Washington D.C., on a picket line. The fourth of five children, among them Casper, Elinor, Gloria and former Justice Thomas Russell Jones, she was born and educated in Brooklyn, New York, attending Girls Commercial High School and Brooklyn College. She was 90 years old.īorn on June 25, 1919, Grace Ward Jones was the daughter of Barbadian immigrants, Thomas Sylvester Jones, among the first practicing podiatrists in New York, and Mabel Ward. Grace Jones Killens, the widow of novelist John Oliver Killens, passed away quietly in her home. He was also the founder of the National Black Writers Conference at Medgar Evers College. John Oliver Killens was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement, as well as writer-in-residence at Medgar Evers College until he made his transition. Grace Killens, the wife of the late John Oliver Killens, and the grandmother of Abiba Wynn-Deceus, made her transition on November 10, 2009. ![]() ![]() It is with great sorrow that I announce that Mrs. From Brenda Greene, Medgar Evers College//Brooklyn: ![]()
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