Elwyn Jones, 71

• Middle Name: Jo
• Added: 08-21-2026
• Died: Nov 10th, 1998

• Hometown: Lakewood, CA

About Elwyn: Elwyn was born in the coal-mining village of Treherbert, located at the top of the Rhondda Fawr valley in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. At age 7 months, his parents and 3 year old sister, boarded the RMS Ascania to Ontario, Canada where he resided, grew up and worked in various jobs. He met my mother Catherine and married in 1950. In 1957, they immigrated to Lakewood, California where my mother gave birth to me in May of that year. In 1958 my sister was born. My father was a hard working, honest man. He worked in the grocery business. My father loved to travel. The first 18 years of my life we traveled in our small camper on a 3/4 ton pickup truck through the west coast U.S. states and into Vancouver, Canada. We fished and hiked and met many other campers during those first 18 years of my life. In 1981 we traveled to London, Scotland and into Wales where we located my father's birthplace. The building that was once there, was now demolished. That is the first time I had seen my father dab his eyes from the tears of finally returning to see where he was born. My father became Catholic to marry my Italian mother in 1950. He remained Catholic and attended mass as a family until he passed in 1998 from a heart attack in his recliner at home. A heartbreaking shock to us and all who knew and loved him. We miss him and pray for him and my mother daily. Thank you for your prayers. more... less...