Death of Walter M. Jones, Richland Parish, LA
Submitted by Betty Jean Weems Neathery,September 2005
Newspaper clippings from MONROE MORNING WORLD
11 February 1968, page 3A and obituary unknown page





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"Walter M. Jones"


Funeral services for Walter M. Jones, 37,
a native of Mangham will be at 2:00 p.m. today at Lone Cherry Baptist
Church near Mangham with burial to follow in the church cemetery
under the direction of First National Funeral Home here.
    
Mr. Jones was killed instantly Saturday in a head-on collision of
an automobile and a Greyhound bus in Vero Beach, Fla.  He had been
employed in Ypsilanti, Mich. at the time of his death.
    
Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Janet A. Jones, Xenia, Ohio, a
step-son, Dennis R. Hess of Vandalia, Ohio; his mother, Mrs. W. C.
Jones, Ypsilanti, Mich.; two sisters, Mrs. Clara Mae Williams of
Texarkana, Tex. and Mrs. C. B. Herring of Ypsilanti; four brothers,
Ernest Jones of Winnsboro, Woodrow Jones of Raleigh, N. C., Benny
Jones of Bastrop and Leroy Jones of Collinston.

"Bus Collision Fatal to Man of Michigan"

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A head-on smashup of an automobile and a
Cincinnati-to-Miami Greyhound bus killed one man instantly Saturday
and injured five others, one critically.
    
Walter N. Jones, 37, of Ypsilanti, Mich., a passenger in the car,
died instantly.  The driver of the car, 37-year-old John P. Sheridan
of New York City, was reported in critical condition.
    
The driver of the badly wrecked bus, J. D. Spradley, 48, of
Orlando, Fla., underwent surgery but was reported not badly hurt.
    
Sheriff's deputy Ronnie Williams was a witness to the collision
at 2:26 a.m. on U.S. Highway 1 south of here.  He said Sheridan's car
veered across the four-lane highway into the path of the bus.



**Submitter's notes: Walter M. Jones was born 10 January 1931 in 
Mangham, LA, the son of Walter Cornelious Jones and Persiller
Elizabeth Brown Jones.  He died 10 February 1968 in Vero Beach, FL.