Dan and Patyricia Jones of Covington are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Jessica Denise Jones to Thomas Kent Norsworthy of Dawsonville, son of Terry and Mary Etta Norsworthy of Smyrna.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Willie Flem and Mattie Jones of Covington and the late Richard and Carol Stevens of Lowell, Ark. The bride is a 1999 honor graduate of Eastside High School and a 2003 cum laude graduate of North Georgia College and State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance. She is a 2007 graduate of Armstrong University with a teaching certificate in special education. She is employed for the Newton County School System as a 6th grade teacher.

The future groom is the grandson of the late Thomas Judson Norsworthy of Decatur, Sarah Barrett Norsworthy Harrell of Ellenwood, F. Douglas Kent of Clinton, S.C., and the late Bertie McGuire Kent Rich of Sterrett, Ala. He is a graduate of Mount Vernon Christian academy in 1997 and of North Georgia College and State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing in 2001. He is employed as the head tennis coach for men and women at North Georgia College and State University and as the head tennis pro at Achasta.

The couple will marry June 25 in Covington.