Ms. Mae Avis Rowdy-Jones

Mae Avis Rowdy Jones, 77, was born March 9, 1947 to the late James Rowdy and Macie Smith Rowdy in Robeson County, North Carolina. She was educated in the Public Schools of Robeson County. Mae Avis or Mook, as she was often so lovingly referred to was married to William “Pig” Jones and to their union was born their two children William DeVaughn and Kecia Revonia Jones. She grew up in The Back Swamp Community and attended New Zion A.M.E. Church and participated in various roles and activities from a very early age. During her life she participated in other area churches, but returned to New Zion and remained faithful until her health began to fail her and she was no longer able to attend, but she loved New Zion. Mae Avis was a woman who believed in hard work and always found a way to make things happen and she knew how to make a little go along way. She was employed with Gene Locklear’s Sewing, Converse, J.P. Stevens and The Mark IV Restaurant, to name a few places. Those who knew Mae say that she was “the life of the party” and that she loved spending time with family and close friends. Mae Avis Jones never met a stranger. She was well-versed in music and the history of music and was somewhat a music connoisseur: that was from James Brown to Diana Ross and Otis Redding to James Cleveland, Shirley Caesar and quartet groups like the Jackson Southern Aires. It was as if she thought that music was a way of getting people together and keeping people together. She loved to sing, and she loved to dance. That was her way of spreading joy and happiness wherever she placed her feet. Probably one of her most known bragging rites was that she was an official member of the Otis Redding Fan Club and that she submitted a few songs back in her day because she just loved anything Otis Redding. Mae was preceded in death by her Parents, James and Macie Rowdy, baby sister, Carolyn Daley, two brothers, James” Pee-Wee”, John David Rowdy, and an honorary brother, Thomas “Smokie” McKee. She leaves to cherish her memories her son, William DeVaughn Jones of Rowland and her daughter Kecia Ravonia Jones of the home, ex-husband and dear friend, William “Pig” Jones of Rowland, NC and two special grandsons, raised as her own William and Damien McCormick and two grandsons Thomas Jones and Damien Troy, seven sisters: Linda Purdie(David) of Lumberton, Vickie Addison(William) of Killeen, TX, Mary Rowdy of Houston, TX, Alice McNeil of Rowland, NC, Phyllis Hunter of Lumberton, NC, Tammie McLean of Rowland, NC, and Macie Hendryx (Linnard) of Houston, TX, Six brothers: William Smith of Rowland, NC, Thomas Lee Rowdy of Rowland, NC, Collins Rowdy of Rowland, NC, Pick Rowdy(Beulah) of Fairmont, NC, Billy Rowdy of Rowland, NC, and Jerome Rowdy(Barbie) of Lumberton, NC, a sister-in-law, Henrietta King of Greensboro, NC and a brother-in-law, Lambert Shell of New York, NY, four great-grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren as well as a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Ms. Mae Avis Rowdy-Jones

March 9, 1947 - July 12, 2024