SUMNER – Martha Ann (Fieldhouse) Jones died in the arms of her husband, George, at her home in Sumner, Maine, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. Her death came after a five year plus battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

She made her home in Salem, N.H., for 44 years before her retirement to Sumner in 2007.

As a Salem resident, she was heavily involved with the First Congregational Church, Lawrence Road, Salem as a member of the Board of Christian Education and the Sunday School attendance officer. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees for many years, often taking the helm as Chairman. Within the community, she was actively engaged with the Rockingham County food bank serving as the volunteer food buyer and food drive coordinator. For many years she went the extra mile by creating holiday food baskets which she distributed to needy families from her own resources.

While not directly involved in town politics she was an annual, active, attendee of Town and School District Meetings and a staunch supporter of her husband as Chairman of the Conservation Commission and later as a two-term Selectman.

Mrs. Jones was a 1950 graduate of Punchard High School, Andover Mass and a 1954 graduate of the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, Boston, Mass. She served as a floor nurse at several of the Greater Lawrence area hospitals, and the Cooley Dickenson Hospital, Northampton, Mass. She finished her nursing career as a private duty pediatric nurse. It was while she was an overnight nurse at the Bon Secour Hospital (now Holy Family Hospital), Methuen, Mass., that she met and married her husband of 57 years.

Born in Lawrence on June 16, 1932, to Ernest Fieldhouse and Edith (Staples) Fieldhouse, she is survived by her husband, George III; her sons, George IV and his wife, Denika (Boisvert) and Thayer of Salem, N.H.; her son, Timothy of Exeter, N.H., her daughter, Rebecca of Marion, Ohio; grandchildren, George Jones V, Brittany Jones, Jasmine Reinert and Kryshanna Jones; two great-grandchildren, Kyleigh Jones and Aiden Phillips. Additionally, she leaves behind her sister, Janet Heestand of Waverly, Ohio; and nephew, Steven Heestand of Cleveland, Ohio.

A service of celebration will be taking place at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 13, 2019,  at the First Congregational Church, 15 Lawrence Road, Salem, N.H.

Arrangements are under the care of Chandler Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 45 Main St., South Paris, Maine.

Online condolences may be shared with her family at www.chandlerfunerals.com

Instead of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.


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