Obituaries: Wiley E. Jones, 1957, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
**********************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
**********************************************


 




From: January 3, 1957 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Wiley E. Jones, 64, Lifelong Resident Cypress Creek, Dies

Last rites for Wiley E. Jones, 64, lifelong resident of the Cypress Creek
community, and former president of the Winn Parish Police Jury, were held
Saturday, December 29, at 2 p.m., at the Cypress Creek Church.  Officiating
were the Rev. Waynon Mott and the Rev. Danny Blake.  Mr. Jones, seriously ill
only one day, succumbed in a Hodge clinic Thursday night.  He had been in
failing health for the past six years.

Acting as pallbearers were Odell Temple, G. C. Temple, Jr., Billy Temple,
Charles Edward Jones, Ellis Wayne Jones, and Murray Chandler, all nephews.

Mr. Jones was the son of the late William Edward and Martha Ellen Jones,
pioneer residents of Ward Four.  He was a member of the Cypress Creek Church.
For eight years he represented Ward Four as a member of he Winn Parish Police
Jury, and for four years he served as president of the parish governing body. 
He farmed until 1934, after which time he was in the logging business.  At the
time of his death he was a logging contractor for Olin Matheson.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Minnie Jones of Dodson; five sons, Durwood
Jones and Olan Jones, of Dodson; Wayman Jones of Arcadia; Delbert Jones of
Minden; and Roger Jones of Winnfield; two daughters, Mrs. Jack Driskill of
Tyler, Texas, and Mrs. Preston Copeland of Homer; three brothers, Dayton Jones
of Winnfield, Otis Jones of Montgomery, and Austin Jones of Dodson; one
sister, Mrs. Grover Temple, of Dodson, and 12 grandchildren.