Victoria Overton Jones

Passed away peacefully on June 25, 2015, at age 87. Loving mother of 5. Grandmother and great-grandmother of many. Sister of 6 siblings (including one surviving sister). Also loved by nieces and nephews, other family and friends.

Victoria began her career working for her father as a bookkeeper at the Overton Hygienic Manufacturing Company. That building on 36th and State is now the home of the Chicago Bee Branch of the Chicago Public Library. She retired after a long career as a lay associate at St. Thomas Lutheran Church in Chicago, and a buyer's assistant at Briggs & Stratton in Milwaukee.

Visitation at ATONEMENT LUTHERAN CHURCH, 4500 N. Sherman Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, on Thursday, July 2, at 11:00 AM until time of Service at 1:00PM. Burial at LINCOLN CEMETERY, 12300 S. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, on Friday, July 3, at 12:30PM.