Early Years and Business Success
Jones was the third of six children born to Swedish immigrants and naturalized citizens, Alfred and Elsa Jones. He spent his early years on the family homestead east of Billings, the largest city in Montana, on the Huntley Project, an irrigation showcase. In 1928, he graduated from Huntley Project High School. The area is now referred to as the unincorporated community of Huntley in Yellowstone County. Jones visited Sweden on several occasions and also took his five grandchildren to meet their European relatives.
As a young man, Jones worked for the railroad and delivered milk in Billings. He started the first trucking company in Casper in eastern Wyoming. In 1932, he married his high school sweetheart, the former Estes "Jackie" Clarke, and the couple had three children. Estes died in 1984, and two years later, Jones married the former Evelyn Nelson. In 1935, Jones purchased a one-truck freight company in Powell, the original Dick Jones Trucking. A son, grandson, and a granddaughter work in the business. For many years, the company was based in Cody, but it returned in 2001 to Powell, where Jones had been elected to the city council in 1940 and as mayor in 1950.
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