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Arizona Mission Chooses Priest-in-Charge

Diocesan Press Service. December 30, 1968 [72-21]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The Rev. Harold S. Jones, a Dakota Indian and priest- in-charge for 13 years of Trinity Episcopal Church, Wahpeton, N.D., has recently begun work as head of Good Shepherd Mission, Ft. Defiance, Ariz. The Mission is on a Navajo reservation.

Following reorganization of the Mission last summer, the congregation was given the opportunity of calling their own priest-in-charge. According to the Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Harte, Bishop of Arizona, this is the first time an Indian mission has been given this right.

Prior to serving at Trinity Church, the Rev. Mr. Jones served on the Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Reservations in South Dakota. His grandfather, the Rev. William Holmes, also served in South Dakota, and was one of the translators of Episcopal Church hymns and services into the Sioux language.

He is a graduate of Northern State Teacher's College, Aberdeen, S. D., and attended Seabury-Western Seminary.

His wife, the former Blossom Steele, also a Dakota Indian, is a teacher with long experience in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They are the parents of one daughter.