Glen Jones

Glen, with his family moved to Tennessee when he was finishing his third year of high school. He played basketball for Bulls Gap High School. After high school, Glen worked 9 years in the furniture industry at Berkline. He left manufacturing to enroll at Walters State Community College and earned his A.S. degree. From there he went to East Tennessee State and got his B.S. degree to teach. Glen taught in Hawkins County at Keplar, where he taught English and coached boys basketball. He then taught P.E. and coached at Bulls Gap Elementary where he started the football program. He then went back to work for Shelby Williams before he went back to teaching. He was at Debusk Elementary in Greene County where he taught a variety of subjects and coached both boys and girls basketball along with football and track. He taught 23 years before his retirement in 2006.

Glen was preceded in death by his parents, Elmer and Bertha Jones and his sister Charlotte Jones Cole; grandparents, Theo Sr. and Dora Harris Jones of Kentucky and George and Della Hill Hale of Indiana. Glen was also preceded in death by his father-in-law, Marshall Burris, Jr. of Maryville.

Glen is survived by the love of his life, Brenda Burris Jones; son, Mark Douglas Jones and wife Tracy Newton Jones; two grandchildren, Brieannah Faith Jones and Bryce Glynn Jones, all of Whitesburg; nephews, Stuart (Kelly) Cole of Russellville and Tony (Judy) Cole of Lenoir City. Glen is also survived by his mother-in-law, Betty Atkins Burris, brother-in-law, Jeff (Karla) Burris; nieces, Kendra (Billy) Holt, Brooke (Jeremy) Patty and Kayla (Brett) Shaw all of Maryville;

and sister-in-law, Marsha Eastridge of Vonore; niece, Wendy Rhodes (Tony) Atkinson of Alabama; nephews, Eric (Sherry) Eastridge of Louisiana, Jason Eastridge of Oak Ridge and Marshall (Susan) Eastridge of Strawberry Plains.

The family will have visitation in the Chapel of Stubblefield Funeral Home on Sunday, October 25, 2020 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. with the burial service to follow in Hamblen Memory Gardens.

Arrangements by Stubblefield Funeral Home, Morristown, TN