Calkins: Attorney Ted Jones wrote some of the best obits in Memphis. He deserves one of his own.
“Ted Jones made Memphis a better, kinder and funnier place,” Geoff Calkins writes. (Courtesy Ted Jones’ family)
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Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Ted Jones took it upon himself to write miniature, elegant obituaries on Facebook, celebrating the lives of attorneys and judges and anyone else he knew in the legal profession who had died. Jones, 67, died July 29.
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