Obituary of Bessie Jones, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana


Copied and Submitted by :Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal;
Micro Film at the LaSalle Parish Library, Located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.


Many Thanks to The Times - Signal for allowing the following to be added to
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JONES, Bessie

  73, of Jena, died Friday, November 14, 1997 at the LaSalle Nursing Home of
Jena.

  She was retired from Pinecrest where served in Resident Training Service
and was a member of the First United Pentecostal Church of Jena.

  She was born May 23, 1924 at Winnsboro to the union of Essic and Maggie
Cater Thacker.

  Services were held Sunday, November 16, 1997, at First United Pentecostal
Church in Jena with the Revs. Wayne Pounders, Crawford Coon and Everett 
"Shorty" Mayo officiating.

  Interment followed in the Belah Cemetery of Trout under direction of Kinner
and Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.

  Survivors include her husband, Thomas Jones of Jena; five sons, Henry Dale
Jones, Essic Jones and Samuel Joe Jones, all of Jena; Thomas Wayne Jones of
Oil City and Lester Paul Jones of Tioga; seven sisters, Jeffie Mae
Hickingbottom of Monroe, Ethel Deville, Naomi Tradewell and Genater Prince,
all of Pineville, Helen Johnson of Urania, Hettie Faye McCaskill of Jonesville
and Ruthie Masters of Monroe; 13 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

(The Jena Times, November 19, 1997)