{"id":1826,"date":"2017-01-19T19:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:21:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:21:30","slug":"ron-jones-sr-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/ron-jones-sr-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Jones, Sr. passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ronJones.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"776\" \/><br \/>\nThe memorial service for Ron Jones Sr., will be held from 11am to 4pm on March 4th at the Life Center located at 1717 S Union Ave Tacoma, WA 98405<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/ron-jones-sr-passing\/ronjones-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1828\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones-1.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones-1-134x150.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a>From David Williams, The Hydroplane &amp; Race Boat Museum on Facebook this morning (1\/19\/17):<br \/>\n<em><span id=\"fbPhotoSnowliftCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">It is with great sadness that I have to share the news that Hall of Fame boat builder and designer Ron Jones Sr. passed away this morning. Please keep Ron and his family in your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>News article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/other-sports\/master-hydroplane-builder-ron-jones-sr-dead-at-84\/\">Seattle Times<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/ron-jones-sr-passing\/ronjones_working\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones_working.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones_working.png 800w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones_working-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones_working-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RonJones_working-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Ron made available to us some of his vintage hydro plans on this website and he\u00a0sent us\u00a0some\u00a0neat photos to\u00a0show the boats\u00a0to go along with\u00a0that endeavor. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/vintagehydroplanes.com\/plans\/jones\/classic_plans.html\">link<\/a>. If you want to look at the photos of some of the boats he designed \/ built, when you get to his webpage of boat plans, <em>click on<\/em> the boat names to see some of his photos he sent in.<br \/>\nA true gentleman and master designer and builder&#8230;the sport will miss him dearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memorial service for Ron Jones Sr., will be held from 11am to 4pm on March 4th at the Life Center located at 1717 S Union Ave Tacoma, WA 98405 From David Williams, The Hydroplane &amp; Race Boat Museum on Facebook this morning (1\/19\/17): It is with great sadness that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}