Raymond A. Jones Jr., CE 49, of Atlanta on June 26. Jones spent his career at J.A. Jones Construction Company, the company his grandfather established in Charlotte, N.C., in 1890. He was a director of the company’s numerous national subsidiaries and retired as executive vice president of the Charlotte headquarters. In Atlanta, he was president of the Peachtree Hills Apartments Corp., chairman of Mark III Inc. and chairman of Technology Park. Jones served in the Army before graduating from Georgia Tech, where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and studied civil engineering. He also completed the Executive Program at the University of North Carolina. Later in life, he endowed the Chair of Civil Engineering at Tech. According to his obituary, he had a lifelong interest in education, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Tech Foundation, as vice chairman of the board of Pfeiffer College in North Carolina, and as a trustee of the Charlotte Country Day School.
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