Mass of Christian Burial for Dora Jones, 87, of Faulkton, SD, formerly of Spearfish, SD, will be held on Friday, July 27th at 10:00 a.m. at the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lemmon.  Fr. Kerry Prendiville and Deacon Bill Dustman will officiate and burial will follow at the Greenhill Cemetery in Lemmon.  Visitation will be from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 26th at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon.  A Rosary/Wake service will be held at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening at St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Dora passed away on July 12, 2018 at the Faulkton Senior Living in Faulkton, SD.

Dora Ann Jones was born on Sept 3, 1930, in Morristown, SD to John Paul and Marcella Jones.

Dora graduated from McIntosh High School in 1948. She worked for the Morristown State Bank for a few years and then attended business school in Rapid City, earning an Associate's Degree.  She worked as a legal secretary for Jackson and Krause Attorneys in Lemmon, SD until 1957.  Dora then attended Mount Marty College and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English.  She then moved to Washington DC and attended the Catholic University.  She graduated in 1963 with a Master's Degree in Library Science.

Dora moved to Minneapolis, MN and worked in the Law Library at the University of Minnesota.  In the fall of 1969 she accepted a position at Black Hills State College (now Black Hills State University) where she taught library science. When the library accepted material from Leland Case to form the Leland D. Case Library for Western Historical Studies, she became the special collections librarian and was also in charge of processing those materials along with the E. Y. Berry Congressional Collection along with the BHSU Archives.  She retired from BHSU in 1995.

After her retirement, Dora dedicated many hours a week as a volunteer at the Grace Bullock Memorial Library, St. Joseph Catholic Church, American Association of University Women, Delta Kappa Gamma, Northern Hills Retired Teachers Association and the DC Booth Fish Hatchery.  She most enjoyed her work with her St. Joseph's Church, where she was a Eucharistic minister, participated in the bell choir and many other volunteer duties.  She loved reading, taking photos, and house plants.  She had a collection of over 3000 books and encouraged reading to any who met her.

Dora received many honors in her professional career.  In 2000 she was honored as one of the most influential librarians of the 20 ^th Century by the Association for Library Trustees and Advocates.  In 1974 she received many accolades for re-discovering ancient tablets dating back to 3500BC which had been misplaced and forgotten in the BHSC archives.

In February 2016, Dora moved to Faulkton, SD where she resided at the Faulkton Senior Living.  She enjoyed the visits of her great nieces and nephew, Taylor, Teralyn, Trisha and Garrett Cramer.

Grateful for having shared in her life are her sister, Phyllis Pearson (Donald), of Lemmon, nieces, Barb Pearson-Cramer (Trevor) of Faulkton, SD and Linda Perreault (Roger), Rush City, MN, nephews, Bob Jones, Blaine, MN and Tim Thomas (Kathy), of Curren, Illinios.  Dora was preceded in death by her parents, John Paul Jones and Marcella Katherine Jones, her brother, Arthur Jones and her sister, Lucille Thomas.