2/1/2001
The lighter side of family history.
From Swing Tunes to Psalms
In the early 1930s, The Texas Rangerettes, an all-girl band, was so popular that Variety and Billboard featured them regularly. Four of the women were my cousins: Hazel, Gladys, Dorothy and Evelyn Jones. As children in Park Rapids, Minn., they had been taught by their mother, Mary McLaughlin Jones, to play nearly every musical instrument. During their high school years, billed as The Jones Girls, they entertained at local and area social functions.