Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
E. L. Jones Rites to Be Held Today
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Osborn Funeral Home Chapel for Everett Lee Jones, who died at his 114 Albany St. residence at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
Dr. Scott Tatum, pastor of the Broadmoor Baptist Church, and the Rev. Truman C. Kerr, will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.
Mr. Jones was born in Winnfield and had lived in Shreveport for 50 years.
He was a member of the Broadmoor Baptist Church, Joppa Lodge, the Shriners and the progressive men's Bible class and was an honorary deputy sheriff.
Survivors include his widow; one dauther [sic daughter], Miss Carolyn Jones of Shreveport, and [sister,] Mrs. Talfourd Jones of Baton Rouge.
Pallbearers will be John T. Hood, Dwight Van Ardel, Paul Osteen, Neal Hill, C. M. Roberts, Leonard Wimberly, Johnny Preston and Dan Griffith.
Sunday, June 8, 1969