Brenda (Hudson) Jones

Funeral services for Brenda Hudson Jones, 73, of Blackville, SC will be held at eleven o’clock a.m., Friday, January 24, 2025 in the Folk Funeral Home Chapel, Williston, SC with the Reverends Ken Frederick, Paul Locke and Dr. Thomas Terry officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home on Friday. A private family burial will be held at the Blackville Cemetery in the Jones Family Plot. Honored to serve as pallbearers will be Mike Gamble, Kevin McCormick, Mike Morrow, Rio Renaud, Brandon Rutherford, and Brantley Rutherford. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Blackville First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 217, Blackville, SC 29817 or to the Samaritan’s Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607. Brenda passed away on Monday, January 20, 2025.

Born in Dunlap, Tennessee, she was a daughter of the late Paul Hudson and Idel Griffin Hudson and was married to John Morris “Johnny” Jones for 37 years. Brenda was a member of the Blackville First Baptist Church, previously worked at DuPont in Tennessee and also worked in Transportation for the Blackville and Williston Public School Systems. Brenda also previously worked at Anthony’s Restaurant in Barnwell and worked along-side of her husband, Johnny at the family farm, Jones “Jo-Jo” Farms. She loved being outdoors and especially enjoyed spending time in the mountains.

Survivors include her husband, Johnny Jones; daughters, Shannan Goforth (Rick W.) Tilson of GA, Melanie Renaud of Asheville, NC and Valerie Rutherford of Charlotte, NC; son, Johnny (Jennifer) Goforth of SC; grandsons, Rick “Wes” Tilson, Benjamin “Porter” Lesesne, Rio Renaud, Brantley Rutherford, Brandon Rutherford; granddaughters, Hudson Goforth, Josie Goforth, and Summer Rutherford; brother, Ronnie Hudson of GA; sisters, Lana Faye Lofty, Sue Anderson, Avis Pickett all of Tennessee; sisters-in-law, Betty Jones and Betty Joye Newman and a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Randall Shell and Terry Shell; a sister, Judy Harris and a brother-in-law, Billy Jones.

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