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David Reese. Memorial Services for David Reese Jones, 61, of Tampa, Fla., will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, 2008 at the First Christian Church in Gainesville. David was born Oct. 16, 1946, in Panama City, Fla., the son of the late David Reese and Louise Andrews Jones of Albuquerque. On Dec. 19, 1974, in Columbia, MO., he married Sue Ann Luna of Gainesville, MO. They have two children: Sam, a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering at the University of Florida, and Reagan, a third-year medical student at the University of Miami. He is survived by his wife and their children; and one sister, Susan Jones, of Albuquerque. He served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War then graduated from New Mexico Tech in 1972. After earning a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1976 from the University of Missouri, David worked in industrial and research positions in New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and Florida. With Owens-Corning, and later with the U. S. government-funded Strategic Highway Research Project, he developed and shared expertise in asphalt-chemistry research and was instrumental in developing an asphalt-chemistry performance specification that now is used on highways throughout the U.S. and internationally. Since 1993, he and his family have lived in Tampa. He was an avid sportsman, hunter, and fisherman. He especially enjoyed overnight float trips with his children and friends on the streams in Ozark County, Missouri, his wife's home, and fishing on the Gulf of Mexico with son Sam and their friends. He died Friday morning at the controls of his fishing boat, the Catch and Keep, as he and a friend headed out the Anclote River, bound for the Gulf. Memorial gifts may be made to the Dave Jones Youth Outdoors Fund, a part of the nonprofit Community Foundation of the Ozarks, Box 218, Gainesville, MO 65655.
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