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 Millie Jones, nee McMurphy (1932 – 2021)
-Millie Jones was born in Whitehorse to parents Jack and Adele McMurphy who lived and worked in Carcross. Jack used a dog team to deliver mail between Atlin and Carcross, and Adele was the White Pass station master for many years. The McMurphys ran the Caribou Hotel during the Second World War. Millie grew up in Carcross and had a home there as an adult. She cooked at the Cowley, Pennington, and Bennett rail stations. She and Don Jones eloped to be married in Skagway during the July 4th celebrations. They lived happily together for thirty-six years until Don died in 1985. Millie prided herself on being able to swim in Lake Bennett nearly every year of her life, and she became a competitive swimmer as a senior athlete. She was adopted into the Ishkahittan clan of the Carcross Tagish First Nation and given the name L'eiw kla. Mille was a third generation Yukon teacher and volunteered in her community in many different ways, including children’s and senior’s programs. She is missed by her children Ken (Maureen), Donna (Mike), Brenda (Doug), and Heather.((“Millie Jones.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 March 2021.))
+Millie Jones was born in Whitehorse to parents Jack and Adele McMurphy who lived and worked in Carcross. Jack used a dog team to deliver mail between Atlin and Carcross, and Adele was the White Pass station master for many years. The McMurphys ran the Caribou Hotel during the Second World War. Millie grew up in Carcross and had a home there as an adult. She cooked at the Cowley, Pennington, and Bennett rail stations.((“Millie Jones.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 March 2021.))
+In 1949, Mille and Don Jones eloped to be married in Skagway and they made their first home at Pennington section house. They had four children: Ken, Donna, Brenda, and Heather. Millie operated a day home and, when they became available, took and qualified from a kindergarten program to teach the children. When kindergartens became part of the Yukon school system, Millie worked hard for fifteen years at night school, summer school and at university. She and her daughter Donna graduated from different universities with BAs in education in 1979.((Donna Jones, "6th Generation of Yukon Teachers?" //North to New Horizons: Short Stories by Yukon Women,// Volume 4, History Committee of the Pioneer Women of the Yukon Society, 2025: 35-37.))
+Mille and Don lived happily together for thirty-six years until Don died in 1985. Millie prided herself on being able to swim in Lake Bennett nearly every year of her life, and she became a competitive swimmer as a senior athlete. She was adopted into the Ishkahittan clan of the Carcross Tagish First Nation and given the name L'eiw kla. Mille was a third generation Yukon teacher and volunteered in her community in many different ways, including children’s and senior’s programs.((“Millie Jones.” //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 5 March 2021.))