2017: Cleveland (Smiley) Jones, 77

Services for San Diego High legend Cleveland (Smiley) Jones will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at El Camino Memorial Park, 5600 Carroll Road, San Diego, 92123.

Viewings are  scheduled from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13.  and from 9-10 a.m. Saturday. A Repast will follow the funeral.

Jones, 77, a resident of Rancho Alamitos in Orange County, had been ill for several months.

Read about Jones and his achievements at San Diego High in 1955 and ‘56.

JIM GILCHRIST, WILLIE McCLOUD

Two of Cleveland Jones’s San Diego High teammates also passed recently.

Gilchrist, 78,  was all-City Prep League in basketball  and baseball in 1955-56 and teamed with Art Powell and others on the 1954-55 basketball team that reached the Southern California playoffs semifinals and finished fourth overall.

McCloud, 76, was a three-year starter and made all-City and all-Southern California second team as a .352-hitting centerfielder on the 25-4 San Diego baseball team in 1959.

McCloud (fourth from right) with 1958 San Diego High team, started for three years on clubs that posted combined, 73-9 record.