Dr. Howard Jones' life

Dec. 30, 1910: Howard W. Jones Jr. is born in Baltimore. His introduction to medicine came as a boy waiting in the car while his father, a general practitioner, made house calls.

1940: He marries Georgeanna Seegar in June; the two would raise three children. Jones had graduated from Amherst College and Johns Hopkins University's medical school in the previous decade.

1940s: Jones serves in the Army as a battlefield surgeon in World War II. His time there, and his and Georgeanna's letters, are recounted in his memoir "War and Love."

After the war, Jones built a distinguished career as a reproductive surgeon at Johns Hopkins. His wife was a pioneer in reproductive endocrinology.

1978: After mandatory retirement at Johns Hopkins, the couple headed to Eastern Virginia Medical School, founding the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine.

Dec. 28, 1981: Elizabeth Carr, the first U.S. baby born through in-vitro fertilization, is delivered in Norfolk, through the help of the Jones Institute.

February 1989: The 500th baby conceived using in-vitro fertilization at the Jones Institute is born.

August 1990: EVMS begins construction of a $12.5 million building that will house the Jones Institute and the largest team of scientists and physicians working in reproductive medicine in the country, the school said at the time.

March 2005: Georgeanna Jones, 92, dies of cardiac failure. She had battled Alzheimer's disease for about a decade.

Dec. 30, 2010: Jones celebrates his 100th birthday.

July 31, 2015: Jones dies at Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk of respiratory failure after a two-week hospital stay.