Extracted from The Jena Times (Jena, LA)
Gove Clarence Jones
Gove Clarence Jones, 77, of Summerville, died Friday, June 10, 2005, in Glenwood Regional Medical Center in West Monroe.
Jones was born on February 19, 1927 [sic 1928], to Calvin D. and Claudia Jones in Trout-Good Pine.
In 1951, he married Edna Earl Westbrook and they moved to Port Arthur, Texas, where he became a supervisor at the Texaco Oil Refinery. The couple raised two sons and a daughter in the Port Arthur area.
He served as a deacon at the First Baptist Church of Port Arthur. He retired from Texaco in 1982 and moved to the Summerville-Antioch area where he became a faithful member of the Antioch-Free Methodist Church.
He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in Korean Conflict, where he was injured and awarded the Purple Heart.
Services were held at 2 p.m., Monday, June 13, in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Juneral Home of Jena with the Revs. Glen Roark and Charles Clark officiating.
Interment followed in the Summerville Baptist Church Cemetery under direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Earl Jones; brothers, Calvin Jones and Charles Jones; sisters, Gladys Brazil, Moeice Poole and Jeanette Russell.
Survivors include one daughter, Tammy V. Jones of Calhoun; two sons, Michael G. Jones of Pasadena, Tx., and Gregg L. Jones of Summerville; one brother, Dee S. Jones of Nacogdoches, Tx.; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Tony Westbrook, Terry Westbrook, Mary Russell, Todd Webb, Tommy Frances, and Barrett Simkins.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005