Obituaries

George Quinton Jones Jr.Librarian, Cathedral Docent

George Quinton Jones Jr., 87, a retired librarian who spent 20 years as a visitor services assistant and volunteer docent at Washington National Cathedral, died Oct. 7 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had pancreatic cancer.

He was born in Portsmouth, Va., and moved to Washington as a child. He graduated from Eastern High School and attended Wilson Teachers College.

His first job was as a librarian with the D.C. Public Library. He also danced with the Mary Day Company, volunteered as an aide at D.C. General Hospital and Doctors Hospital and as house manager at Arena Stage.

Mr. Jones enlisted in the Air Force in 1947, and he served much of his tour in Colorado and Alaska.

He returned to Washington in 1951 and went to work behind the Main Reading Room desk at the Library of Congress. He later joined the American Battle Monuments Commission and the library at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, from which he retired in 1975.

Mr. Jones then went to work at Washington National Cathedral.

He was a member of Christ Church Georgetown, where he volunteered to fix breakfast for worshipers on Wednesdays, served on the altar guild and as an usher, and tended the yard. He was also in a Shakespeare theater group.

Mr. Jones made friends wherever he went, said Murray L. Howder, a friend. "He was the kind of person people gravitated to. He was very outgoing."

He leaves no immediate survivors.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb