Susan Kaye Jones

Susan Jones, 72 passed away in her sleep at the Tucson Medical Center in- patient hospice in Tucson, Arizona during the late evening of March 2, 2024. During her last waking hours, she had been surrounded by her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and grandchildren. She also had been showered with flowers, cards, voicemails, and text messages too numerous to answer or even have read to her from friends and former students. She definitely knew she was loved.

Susan Kaye Scoggin was born June 23, 1951, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota to Harry L. Scoggin and Edna P. (Youngberg) Scoggin. She attended country school for five years at the Government Canyon School north of Hulett, Wyoming. Her parents then bought a house in Belle Fourche where she finished her remaining K-12 school years and graduated from Belle Fourche High School with honors in 1969. Of the places she worked in Belle Fourche, she was most fond of the time she worked at Cliff Thomas Drug . Several years later, she went to Black Hills State University, in Spearfish and finished, again with honors, with a teaching degree. Susan started her teaching career in Newcastle, in the fall of 1977. It was shortly after that when she met her future husband, Jim Jones. She married Jim in Belle Fourche on June 10, 1978.