Jack was born , Donald Wayne Jones , in Rolla,Missouri on August 5th , 1959 - his mother - Bessie Jane Lewis - father - Isaac Lonzo Earney . He was married for ten years and father to Melissa Shepard , Nicole Jones and Zach Jones and was blessed with six grandbabies at the time of his death .

   I met and became Jack`s partner August 21st , 1992 and we were together as partners for the next seventeen years - parting company in September of 2009 but remaining best friends til the end . He admited to me later that he knew something was wrong , medically for a year before he left . That condition became known to him in Febuary of 2010 when he had the first of a series of major heart attacks brought on by extinsive hereditary atery blockage resulting in a triple by-pass surgery - sadly all three by-passes failed and he was in and out of the hospital having a total of ten stints installed  and many blockages cleared until his eleventh heart attack took him on January 3rd ,2011

          He predicted to me from the day we meet that he would die of a heart attack or stroke in his fifties - knowing his fathers medical history and one of his wishes was to die before he got too old - forever young - Jack , you got that wish and you will be forever young in our memories .

  You were deeply loved and will be missed !

  Ride on in peace , Buddy !