Obituary: World War II Hero Passes Away on Memorial Day

Philip Paul Jones died on May 30, 2016, at the age of 94.

Philip was born and grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, NY. As an adult he lived in Parkchester, NYC; Morristown, NJ; Fairfield, CN; Erie, PA; Shaker Heights, OH; Ewing, NJ; and, in the last two years, Moorestown, NJ.

He attended Colby College for one year and then transferred to, and graduated from, Hamilton College in 1942.

He enlisted in the US Navy and graduated from Officer Candidate School. He served during WWII from the fall of 1942 until late in 1945 on three ships. Most of his service was on the USS Barr in the Pacific, and he reached the rank of Lieutenant Senior Grade.

He and that ship delivered and retrieved an underwater demolition team in advance of the Battles of Okinawa and of Iwo Jima and then served other roles in those battles. Later the ship retrieved prisoners of war from camps in Japan and then housed the US Bomb Survey group studying Nagasaki after the atomic bombing.

Philip met Alice Lowe Johnson in Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY when their families spent part of the summer of 1941 in bungalows near the salt water. They married in July of 1944 when he was on a brief medical leave from the Navy.

For most of his civilian career he worked for the Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation in sales, sales management, and market development.

He is survived by his wife, Alice Lowe Jones, currently of Moorestown, NJ; son Philip Jones (Victoria Taylor Robertson) of Moorestown; daughter Patricia Jones (Allen Gibas) of Minneapolis; grandson Patrick Jones of San Francisco; and granddaughter Julia Gibas Jones of Minneapolis.

Funeral services and interment will be private. Condolences may be left at www.lewisfuneralhomemoorestown.com