Archie Clifford (Alec) Jones

Archie Clifford (Alec) Jones Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama pass away April 23, 2023 at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama.

He was born November 4, 1943 in Clanton, Alabama, son of the late Archie Clifford Jones Sr. and the late Lila Kent Jones.

After graduating from the University of Alabama, he spent a couple of years as an analyst for the National Security Agency and as a sales agent for Equitable Life Assurance Society before returning to school to earn his Juris Doctor from the Cumberland Law School.  He then worked as legal counsel at Protective Life, rising to Assistant Vice President, Associated Counsel.

For most of his life, he was active at Riverchase United Methodist Church, in the founding of which he and his late wife, Sharon, were instrumental.

He was passionate about Crimson Tide football, woodworking, and photography.  He was a member of the Woodworker’s Guild of America and often traveled around the country replicating photographs taken by his favorite photographer, Ansel Adams. A student during Governor Wallace’s “Stand at the Schoolhouse Door”, Alec was inside Farrah Hall (across the courtyard from Foster Auditorium) taking photographs of this historical event.

He was preceded in death by his wife Sharon Woolley Jones, his father, Archie C. Jones Sr., and his mother Lila K. Jones.

Graveside Service will be held May 2, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. CT at Martin Memorial Cemetery with Rev. Nancy Harper with Riverchase United Methodist Church officiating.

Family requests NO Flowers, please make donations to the following:

Alzheimer's Association: Alabama Chapter
2151 Highland Avenue South
Suite 210
Birmingham, Alabama 35205

Interment will follow in Martin Memorial Cemetery, Clanton, Alabama.

Martin Funeral Home directing.