Alice "Faye" Jones Obituary (1941 - 2025) - Vanceboro, North Carolina

Alice “Faye” Jones (August 15, 1941 - February 23, 2025) Faye Jones, 83, of Vanceboro, NC, died peacefully Sunday evening surrounded by family at ECU Health. She was born in Craven County in 1941 to the late Sadie and Leon Hardy. On November 7, 1981 she married the late Roy Allen “Buddy” Jones. She worked for decades as a skilled seamstress, a trade that she used in her personal life as well having sewn for her children when they were small, making a wedding dress for one of her daughters, and many outfits for her granddaughters. Even after retirement, Faye continued completing alternations for family, friends and neighbors. She found great joy in sewing masks during the Covid pandemic. Faye enjoyed riding down the Pollard road looking for deer with her late husband, canning vegetables and preserves, and cooking big Sunday lunches for her family. Faye is survived by her daughters: Windy Bowen-Horn (David), Brenda Bowen Blanco and Donna Bowen, grandchildren Lani Blanco Hindman (Nathan), Carter Blanco George (Anthony) and Kevin Parker (Shari), and siblings Nellie Mae Cannon, Mavis Woolard, and Joseph Eugene Hardy. Faye is also survived by special loved ones Carlos Blanco, Beverly Woolard, Jennifer Fornes, and Kenleigh Hawkins. In addition to her husband and parents, Faye is preceded in death by her siblings: Linwood Ray Hardy, Donald Wayne Hardy, Billy Gene Hardy, Helen Manning and Vivian Coward, and her daughter Cherylene Parker. The family will be gathering at 2943 Avon Road, Greenville, NC. A small graveside service will be held at Chapman Cemetery on Hwy. 43, Vanceboro at 2pm on Saturday, March 1, 2025. Bennett Funeral & Cremation Care is honored to serve the family and friends of Alice "Faye" Jones.