The Ruby Carpenter Jones Scholarship Honoring a Legacy of Dedication.

 

Ruby Carpenter Jones was born on the O'Keefe Place just outside Winona, Mississippi, 101 years ago. She was a bright child who set her sights on going to college and becoming a teacher despite being the child of a sharecropper family.​

 

With the help of her family, Ruby attended a community college for 2 years and then earned a teaching certificate from Delta State University.  She was motivated and a hard worker. Her first job was in a school where her brother, Howard Carpenter, taught.  ​It was about this time, just after World War II, that she met a young soldier returning from the battles fought across Italy. His name was Bud Jones. They married and raised a family in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The determination and commitment that Ruby Jones demonstrated in her life should be an example to all of us.​

 

This scholarship is dedicated to her life and legacy -- one of dedication and love, with the hope that the recipient will have the same zeal for the Lord, for their community, and for their family that Ruby has demonstrated in over a century of life. ​​