Thomas O. Jones
(November 1, 1946 - February 12, 2014)

Thomas O. Jones, 67, of Huntington died February 12, 2014 in Cornerstone Hospital, Huntington, WV. A gathering of friends and family will be 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 1, 2014 at Klingel Carpenter Mortuary. He was born November 1, 1946 in Altoona, PA, a son of the late and noted economist and author, Oliver H. Jones and Margaret Ann Jones. Tom Jones was writing a series of historical novels being published by Silk Label Press. The first was EARLY SKY WATCHERS IN BOTTICELLI'S FLORENCE, published in 2010, the second was THE JUBILEE YEAR OF GIORDANO BRUNO, published in 2011. Last fall, the Mellen Press of London published THE INFLUENCE OF MARSILIO FICINO ON ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Thomas O. Jones, a two-volume work of over a thousand pages. In the Preface, scholar and author Robert Levine wrote, "The work of Marsilio has lit a fire in Tom that burns brightly to this day. The outcome of his passion is the current volume in which Tom takes us on a journey starting in fifteenth century Italy. ... The reader has the privilege to share the burning passion of the author's scholarship and vision."Tom also wrote RENAISSANCE MAGIC AND HERMETICISM IN THE SHAKESPEARE SONNETS, also published by the Mellen Press. (Mellen Press has thousands of books in the libraries at Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford and universities in London, Paris and Berlin.) Tom wrote the novels DEATH GODS OF APPLEVALE, published by E.M Press and LORD OF THE GEATS, published by Trillium. Recently, Tom organized a 55th Anniversary Reunion of his grade school class at St. Anns School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. For several years, he played flute with a small music group, performing in and around Huntington. For many years, he's worked every Thanksgiving and Christmas day at a homeless shelter in Huntington, serving dinners to the homeless. Tom is survived by four brothers, William, David, Robert and Richard Jones; three nephews, Andrew, Matthew and Sam; a niece, Rebecca and one great nephew, Landon.