Arkansas 4-H Alumni Association

Mary Juanita Jones Warren

Cleburne County

Outstanding Arkansas 4-H Alumna, 1973

Mary was a member of the Morton 4-H Club near McCrory in Woodruff County from age 9-18. Her leaders were Velma Jones, Grace Gaines, and Mary Jane Smith.

Her projects included Electricity, Frozen Foods, Clothing, Canning, and Leadership. Mary was the 1965 State "A" Award Electricity record book winner at Arkansas 4-H Congress, Woodruff County 4-H Champion Girl, Achievement, Clothing, Bread, Canning, Electric, and Dress Revue project winners. Mary was able to attend the State 4-H Week on the University of Arkansas campus and the Rural Electrification of Arkansas nights.

As an adult, she was awarded the 1973 Arkansas 4-H Alumni Award, 1996 Arkansas 4-H Leader of the Year, and Pearl Clover 4-H Leader Award. She is a lifetime member of the Arkansas 4-H Adult Leaders Association and a charter member of the Arkansas 4-H Alumni Association, having served on the Board of each. Mary was a Volunteer Leader Delegate to the 1993 National 4-H Youth Congress in Chicago.

Mary attended the University of Arkansas and was a resident of the 4-H House. In 1979 Mary was selected as an Outstanding Young Woman of America. She served as the Cleburne County 4-H Program Assistant and retired from CES in December 2000.

Mary and her husband Martin Eugene "Gene" Warren have one son, Aaron.

I enjoyed 4-H as a member and am enjoying it again as a leader, she said. We are third generation of 4-Hers. My father, Kenneth C. Jones, was an Arkansas 4-Her in White County during the 1920s.