| − | Jones was the only child of Benjamin Oliver "Ben" Waller (1900-1944), who died when Greta was five,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Waller&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1164&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=38107821&df=all&|title=Benjamin Oliver "Ben" Waller|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 26, 2018}}</ref> and the former Vada B. Pilgreen (1916-2000), who subsequently wed Gerald Lloyd Norman (1917-1979), Jones' stepfather.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Norman&GSfn=Vada&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=76624686&df=all&|title=Vada B. Norman|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 26, 2018}}</ref> Jones was reared in Farmerville and in [[rural]] Haile, both in Union Parish. She attended Haile Elementary School and graduated from Linville High School in Marion, also in Union Parish, and the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She also studied at the Bish Mathis Institute, a business college in Longview, [[Texas]], and Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]]. She and her husband, Jimmy L. "Jimmy" Jones, whom she met while employed in Sterlington north of Monroe, had three sons and a daughter, the late James H. "Bud" Jones, Richard Kevin Jones and wife, Judith, of Bastrop in Morehouse Parish, Robert Eric Jones and wife, Laurie, of Melbourne, [[Florida]], and Frances Kay Jones King and husband, Tim, of McKinney, Texas.<ref name=obit/> | + | Jones was the only child of Benjamin Oliver "Ben" Waller (1900-1944), who died when Greta was five,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Waller&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1164&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=38107821&df=all&|title=Benjamin Oliver "Ben" Waller|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 26, 2018}}</ref> and the former Vada B. Pilgreen (1916-2000), who subsequently wed Gerald Lloyd Norman (1917-1979), Jones' stepfather.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Norman&GSfn=Vada&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=76624686&df=all&|title=Vada B. Norman|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=April 26, 2018}}</ref> Jones was reared in Farmerville and in [[rural]] Haile, both in Union Parish. She attended Haile Elementary School and graduated from Linville High School in Marion, also in Union Parish, and the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]]. She also studied at the Bish Mathis Institute, a business college in Longview, [[Texas]], and Bossier Parish Community College in [[Bossier City]]. She and her husband, Jimmy L. "Jimmy" Jones, whom she met while employed in Sterlington north of Monroe, had three sons and a daughter, the late James H. "Bud" Jones, Richard Kevin Jones and wife, Judith, of Bastrop in Morehouse Parish, Robert Eric Jones and wife, Laurie, of Melbourne, [[Florida]], and Frances Kay Jones King and husband, Tim, of McKinney, Texas.<ref name=obit/> |