Dolores Romaine Jones, 38, loved to cook

If you went to Dolores Romaine Jones' home in West Philadelphia, you would have been advised to take a hearty appetite.

The way Dolores greeted friends, relatives and neighbors who knocked on her door was with food.

When you arrived, she would head for the kitchen and the stove, and soon you would be the recipient of her famous fried chicken or other samples of old-fashioned Southern fare.

Dolores was a generous woman, as "sweet as apple pie," as her aunt, Marian Jones, put it. "She would give you the world if you asked."

Dolores, called "Dee Dee" by family and friends, died of a heart attack last Friday. She was 38.

She was a clerk for the Internal Revenue Service for 19 years.

Dolores was born in Philadelphia to Valaida Jones. She graduated from the Franklin Learning Center, and soon after went to work for the IRS.

"She was a fun-loving girl with a smile that wouldn't quit," her aunt said. "You knew by the way she smiled that she was loved."

Dolores doted on her two sons, Jalil and Jalmir. She took them everywhere, to Hershey Park and other amusement centers, and to visit relatives in Georgia.

She also enjoyed the Atlantic City casinos and was an avid fan of the singer Prince.

Besides her sons and mother, she also is survived by a brother, David.

Services: 10:30 a.m. today at the World Tabernacle Church, 52nd Street and Chester Avenue. Friends may call at 9:30 a.m.

Burial will be in Rolling Green Memorial Park, West Chester. *

- John F. Morrison