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Former Daily Citizen Editor Perrin Jones Dies at 80

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LITTLE ROCK – Perrin Jones, who edited The Daily Citizen in Searcy for decades, has died. He was 80.

Pastor Steve Hancock of the Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock confirmed the death Friday to The Associated Press and said the church will handle the funeral service.

Jones’ family owned The Daily Citizen for three generations and served as editor from 1954 until 1986, several years after the paper was sold. He continued to write a weekly column, the last of which appeared Sept. 21.

Jones then worked at the Arkansas attorney general’s office from 1990 until 2010.

Jones told his old newspaper in 2011 that he never bought equipment that he couldn’t run himself, so that the paper would be assured of publishing every day.

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