ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LA. 

Obituary for: JONES, LOUIS M. 

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan. 

Source: E.J. Fielding Funeral Home, Covington, La.

Died Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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JONES, LOUIS M. 
(July 21, 1918 - August 21, 2013)

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Louis M. Jones, an attorney and Life-long New Orleans resident, died on 
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at Christwood Retirement Community in Covington, LA.

He was a 1941 graduate of both the College of business Administration and the 
College of Law of Tulane University. 
Upon graduation, he was drafted as a private into the Army. He was discharged 
in 1945 as a combat intelligence officer in the Army Air Corps. He invented a 
survival vest for B-29 bombardment crew that was adopted by the Air Corps for 
which he was awarded a Bronze Star. 
In 1943 he was appointed by the Army to the Dixie Mission to Communist China to 
evaluate the military and political capabilities of the Communists with the 
idea of establishing a base on mainland China from which to launch an invasion 
of Japan. After the diplomatic mission of Gen. Patrick Hurley, the plan was 
abandoned.

He practiced law privately and, for a time, was in the mortgage banking 
industry as President of Eagle Mortgage Corporation. In 1964 he was President 
of the New Orleans Mortgage Bankers Association and in 1967 he served as 
President of the Louisiana Mortgage Bankers Association.

He served the State of Louisiana for approximately twenty years as a senior 
assistant attorney general on the staff of State Attorney General, William J. 
Guste, Jr. Upon his retirement, he served as a senior consultant to the law 
firm of Steeg and O’Connor.

He was a delegate to the 1974 Louisiana State Constitutional Convention. He was 
a life-long supporter of the New Orleans Metropolitan YMCA. In 1994, he was 
awarded the Y’s Humanitarian Award. At the time of his death, he was a member 
of the Y’s Board of Trustees.

He married Valerie Elizabeth Powell in 1942. There was one child, Jeffrey 
Powell Jones. Both are deceased. Jeffrey in 1979. Valerie in 1982.

In 1982, he married Mary Elizabeth Matthews whom predeceased him in 2010. 
Survivors are Mrs. Ingrid Mary Booth and Mrs. Jane Reed Meyer.

The burial will be held privately in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in 
Metairie, LA 

and has been entrusted to E.J. Fielding Funeral Home.

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