Peter Allen Jones

Peter Allen Jones was born on October 14, 1946 in Tampa, Florida, and passed away on February 14, in Murray, Utah at the age of 78+. He is survived by his Wife Kristin R. Jones of Herriman, Utah, his Son Jeffrey A. Jones of Sandy, Utah, and his Grandson Dylan J. Jones, also of Sandy. Peter was preceded in death by his Father – Allen Jackson Jones, a Silver Star recipient, from Colton, California, and his Mother – Peggy A. Brewer Jones, also of Colton, California.

Peter and his family moved from Tampa to Colton, California when he was about 8 years old. His Father “Jack” was asked to run Squires Lumber and Hardware store by his sister in law, and Squires became a very successful staple in Colton.

Peter graduated from Colton High School in 1968, with a Letterman’s jacket for football in hand. He then enrolled in the California polytechnic College (Cal Poly) in Pomona, to study Aerospace Engineering, but he later changed his major to Mathematics. He graduated from Cal Poly in 1969 with a BS degree in Math. He promptly went to work for Heliodyne. In conjunction with Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California. Many fun nights were had eating and dancing at the Officers Club. Pete was then transferred to JPL in Pasadena for a brief stint. While the company names changed through the years = XonTech, Northrup Grumman, L3Harris, the core group of engineers stayed the same as they followed the contracts from one company to another. Peter also worked with Nasa for a short while after the Challenger disaster. Pete’s specific title was Senior Scientist as he worked mostly on missile reentry radar analysis. His work took him to many different destinations, most of which were not exactly 5 star locations! Look up Ascension Island!

Pete and Kristin were married on April 26, 1969 in Arcadia, California. We met on a blind date – he was a senior at Cal Poly, and I was a freshman. Our son was born later that year. We moved into our new home in Grand Terrace in1969, then to Placentia in 1972, Yorba Linda in 1976, Murrieta in 2003, and Herriman, Utah in 2021. Little did Pete know that he had married a horse crazy girl, and so the journey began of owning horses – trail riding and camping with the horses was followed by the show horse bug, and breeding. Our horse show adventures took to many exciting places – Reno, Tulsa, Ft Worth, Albuquerque, and many fun places within California. We decided to pull up our stakes and move to Utah in 20121, as we tell people, the move was mostly for family, taxes, and politics! Once we got settled we were ready to go out and enjoy Pete’s semi-retirement, but cancer had other ideas. We were able to enjoy Zion and Lake Powell, but there was a whole world out there that we wanted to see,. Peter passed on February 14, 2025 from Melanoma cancer that he had been fighting for 6 years. I know he’s in a better place, and free of the horrible pain, but he will be so deeply missed.

Services will be held Thursday, February 27^th at 2pm at Larkin Mortuary in Riverton, 3688 West 12600 South, Riverton, Utah

Peter requested Cremation, and a Celebration of Life will be held April 26 in Herriman, Utah.