Melvin LeRoy Jones, 74, a resident of Ocean Shores, died at Montesano Health and Rehabilitation Center, on Friday, September 6, 2013. He was born in Hammon, Oklahoma, the son of Houston LeRoy and Dorothy L. (Jones) Jones. The family moved to Raymond, Wash. and Melvin attended Raymond schools.
He served in the Navy and upon his return to the Harbor he went to work as a sheet metal fabricator working in roofing. He worked for Howell Sheet Metal Co. in Aberdeen and Pryde Sheet Metal Co. of Hoquiam. He retired following an injury in 1974.