Extracted from The Ruston Daily Leader (Ruston, LA)
Thursday, November 10, 1983

Jones

L.W. ``Deacon'' Jones, 89, died Tuesday in Longleaf Nursing Home in Ruston after a long illness.

Services will be at 3:30 p.m. today at Kilpatrick Funeral Home of Ruston with Dr. Robert Magee officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston, under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home.

Jones was a retired carpenter, a resident of Ruston for the past 58 years and a charter member of Temple Baptist Church in Ruston.

Survivors include two sons, L.W. Jones Jr. of Bossier City and W.H. Jones of LaPorte, Texas; three daughters, Frances Knowles of Deer Park, Texas, Marie Blackwelder of Ruston and Doris Jean Morrison of Pasadena, Texas; two sisters, Lula Bell Quigley of Cotton Valley and Pauline Chapman of Baton Rouge; 15 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.