Obituary of Cecil (Skipper) Jones, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, LA.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date: January 21, 1987

Page: 7B

Headline: Cecil (Skipper) Jones

Cecil (Skipper) Jones, 60, of Trout, died at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 15,
1987, at the LaSalle General Hospital following a long illness.

He was a retired foreman for Louisiana Midland Railroad and member and deacon
at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church.

Services were held at 10 a.m. Sunday morning at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church with
Revs. Albert Vickers, M. D. Moses and John Lee Dayton, officiating.

Burial followed at Mt. Sinai Cemetery with arrangements by Kinner and Stevens
Funeral Home of Jena.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Kathleen Jones of Trout; two sons, Dee Jones
of Jena and Larry Jones of Trout; a brother, Lonnie Jones of Trout; three
sisters, Mrs. Janie Francis and Mrs. Wannie Mae LaCroix, both of Trout and
Thelma Cockerham of Ruston; and six grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Wayne McCartney, Glen McCartney, Tommy Francis, Joe Jones,
Donald Robertson, and Douglas Robertson.

Honorary pallbearers were Francis Goynes and Bubba Sherrill.