Longtime Hawaii journalist Bob Jones dies at 85
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Courtesy Denby Fawcett
Longtime print and TV journalist Bob Jones died peacefully at his Diamond Head home on Monday. The cause of death was heart failure, according to his wife, Denby Fawcett. He was 85.STAR-ADVERTISER FILE
Bob Jones, Linda Coble and Larry Beil during a KGMB newscast on May 15, 1987.STAR-ADVERTISER FILE
Bob Jones, Tim Tindall, and Joe Moore on KGMB's set in February 1974.CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
Bob Jones, at his Diamond Head home, demonstrated his recipes for eggplant bulgogi and kimchi shrimp on April 8.CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
Bob Jones preparied his eggplant bulgogi in the kitchen of his Diamond Head home on April 8.CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
Bob Jones squeezes the moisture out of the eggplant before adding other ingredients for his eggplant bulgogi dish on April 8.Courtesy Denby Fawcett
In 1968 and again in 1972, Bob Jones left KGMB to be an NBC News foreign correspondent in Vietnam and Laos.JOHN BERGER / JBERGER@STARADVERTISER.COM
Ha'aheo 'Aina-Cockett, Joy Albiar, Bob Jones and Shelbi Takahashi attended Jim Nabors' 85th birthday party on June 12, 2015.Courtesy Denby Fawcett
Bob Jones had a long career reporting the Vietnam War.Courtesy Denby Fawcett
Bob Jones worked at KGMB until 1994.Courtesy Brett Jones
Bob Jones on a trip to Nepal in 2014. Courtesy of Brett Jones.Courtesy Denby Fawcett
Bob Jones had a long career reporting the Vietnam War.