He died on April 15, 1999. He is survived by his wife and three
of their children. He was living in Santa Barbara in a retirement
home (he was 89 years old). There was a memorial meeting at the
University of California about June 1st in his honor. I think
Jim Rogers who was one of his students will write something
for Topology Atlas, at any rate I made this suggestion, and
I expect other things will be written. (That was the University
of California in Riverside, Calif.) I wrote an article
which appeared in Handbook of the History of General Topology
edited by C. E. Aull and R. Lowen Volume I, 85-96 whose title
was "The early work of F. B. Jones". The year it appeared was
1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers, printed in the Netherlands.
Burton Jones also published an article in the same Book entitled
The Beginning of Topology in the United States and the Moore School".
It immediately followed mine, pages: 97 - 103. I did not intend
that my article should be an obituary for him and I must confess
there are a number os misstatements in it for Continuum Theory which
was his field and not mine is a bit out of my knowledge. But
Burton Jones had more direct influence on my mathematics than any
other mathematician and what we so often discussed were very abstract
and set theoretic ideas. I was also very close the whole family
with almost 60 years of contact. But an obituary for a so varied a
man should have some real thought put into it and I have not done that
at any rate.
Sincerely, Mary Ellen Rudin