Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....JONES, ROY HOWARD September 27, 2008
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News Star World - September 29, 2008

 
ROY HOWARD JONES

Mulhearn Funeral Home

Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA

Funeral services for Mr. Roy Howard Jones 74, of Monroe, LA, will be held at 
3:00 P.M. Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at the Forsythe Avenue Church of Christ 
with John Dobbs and Jason Barnard officiating. Interment will follow at 
Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. Jones was born on November 12, 1933 in Grayson, LA to Lottie Pankey Jones 
and Walter H. Jones, Sr. He graduated from Neville High School in 1952, 
attended Northeast Louisiana University and served in the U.S. Army. He first 
entered the grocery business working at his family's store and upon returning 
from the service, worked with F. Strauss & Son and Malone and Hyde for twenty-
nine years. He owned and operated Ouachita Distributing Company along with his 
wife, Anne, for the last twenty-five years. He served on the board of 
directors of the Louisiana Wholesale Grocers Association and River Oaks School 
and was a member of Forsythe Avenue Church of Christ since 1969.

He was preceded in death by his brothers, Morriece Jones, Murphy Jones, James 
D. Jones, and Walter H. Jones, Jr.

Survivors include his wife of forty-seven years, Anne Stanley Jones; son, 
Donald Jones and wife Frances; daughter, Allison Chapman and husband Bill; 
five wonderful grandchildren, Whit and Ainsley Chapman of Monroe and Grayson, 
Thomas, and Mary Frances Jones of Dallas, TX; sisters, Lillian Stone, Ruth 
Newberry, and Frances Sparks and husband James D.; sisters-in-law, Betty 
Jones, Alma Patrick Jones, Delores Jones, Judy Hattaway and husband Charles; 
brothers-in-law, Gerald Stanley and wife Sherry and Richard Stanley and wife 
Betty Carol; many nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be White Graves, Joe Cassiday, David Burkett, Mike Riley, 
Gerald Stanley, Paul Benjamin, and Gary Stanley.

Honorary pallbearers will be the employees of Ouachita Distributing and his 
numerous nephews.

Visitation will be 2:00 P.M. Tuesday until service time at Forsythe Church of 
Christ, Monroe, LA.

Memorials may be made to the Forsythe Church of Christ, Forsythe Avenue, 
Monroe, LA.


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