Obituaries:  Willie Dee Jones, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       J-520
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 30, 1979
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Willie Dee Jones

  Funeral services for Willie Dee Jones, 67, of Bossier City, were
held at 10 a.m., Monday, Aug. 27, in the Boone Funeral Home
Chapel. The Rev. Vernon Stephenson, pastor of Toledo Bend Baptist
Center, the Rev. Bill Tice, pastor of first Wesleyan Church, and
the Rev. A. C. Lawton officiated.

  Additional services were held at 2:30 p.m., Monday, in the
Marthaville United Methodist Church, with burial following in the
McCaskill Cemetery, Marthaville.

  Miss Jones died Friday, Aug. 24, at Pleasant Hill Hospital,
Pleasant Hill, after a short illness. She was a retired Bossier
Parish schoolteacher.

  A Marthaville native, she was a member of the Marthaville United
Methodist Church. She received her bachelors degree from
Northwestern State College, and the masters from Louisiana State
University. She was listed in the Who's Who in American Colleges
and Universities; taught at McNeese, and Northwestern State
colleges, as well as Caddo, Bossier, and Natchitoches parish
public schools; and was a member of the Bossier Education
Association, Louisiana Retired Teacher Association, and National
Retired Teacher Association.

  Survivors include two sisters, Annie Lee Veuleman of Pleasant
Hill, and Lizzie Mae Jones of Marthaville.

  Pallbearers were Edward Skibba, Lewis Day, Kenneth Graves, Gerry
Cox, Chester Edwards, Henry W. Smith, Randolph Smith, David
Walden, Edward Moore, Tommy Jennings, Thomas Hady, Bub Law,
George Mallett, Bub Crump, Virgil Barnhill, Curley Mitchell, J.
S. Noel, Leon Fahnestock, Carry Fahnestock, Earl Fahnestock, and
James W. Bolton.