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Audrey
Jones (Beck) with her mother,
Audrey Thompson Jones
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Audrey Jones Beck was born on March 27, 1922, in Houston, Texas, to
Audrey and Tilford Jones, Mrs. Jones’s son from her first marriage.
However, Jesse Jones was the only grandfather Audrey ever knew, and
her grandparents treated her more like a daughter than a grandchild.
Audrey wrote in a school essay, “I call him ‘Bods,’
and he is my grandfather. He is very tall, his complexion is ruddy,
his eyes are steel blue and can either snap or twinkle; his firm mouth
and the dimple in his cheek suggest neither the statesman nor the
financier. He can and does talk about the things that interest me,
and it always surprises me when I remember that he is held in awe
by many people.”
Audrey said she had two sets of parents: her own and her grandparents,
Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones. She spent as much time with the Joneses
as she did with her parents and had her own room in her grandparents’
Lamar Hotel penthouse on Main Street, in the heart of downtown Houston,
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