SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS - September 8, 2015) – He had the boyish, all-American good looks that made him a favorite choice in Disney films such as The Love Bug. But his wholesome outer appearance belied a troubled personal life that led him to the foot of the cross and changed the course of his life.
Beloved actor Dean Jones passed to his eternal reward September 1st, due to complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 84.
Jones, a native of Alabama, grew up in a Christian home and even attended Asbury College, a private Christian school in Kentucky founded in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. He failed to graduate, however, and ran from God, rejecting the faith of his family to pursue his own success in Hollywood.