Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, July 15, 1960

Leo E. Jones Succumbs to Brief Illness

Leo Eckert Jones, 57, 4607 Fern, died at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in Highland Hospital after a short illness. Mr. Jones, who had been with Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp. and predecessor companies for 38 years, was general credit manager of the company.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Father Edmund Moore will officiate at the Requiem Mass. Services are under the direction of Osborn's Funeral Home.

Mr. Jones, a resident of Shreveport for 31 years, was born in Winnfield. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club, Petroleum Club, past president of Retail Merchants' Assn., past president of the Shreveport Wholesale Credit Men's Assn., past vice president of Louisiana Retail Credit Assn., past director of National Assn. of Credit Men, past president of Southwest Petroleum Credit Group, past president of the American Petroleum Credit Assn., member of the administrative committee of the graduate school of Credit and Financial Management, Dartmouth and Stanford; leadership training chairman and past advancement chairman of Norwela Council, and was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Pansy Wallace Jones; one daughter, Miss Freddie Merle Jones of Emporia, Kan.; one son, Ensign Keith Shannon Jones of Pensacola, Fla.; four brothers, Keith E. Jones, Clifford Jones and Reginald Jones, all of Baton Rouge, and Norwood Jones of Arcadia, Calif.; and three sisters, Mrs. Mable Moise of Mississippi; Mrs. Audrey Sasser of San Antonio, Tex.; and Mrs. Hilton Gregg of Baton Rouge.

Pallbearers will be M. J. Lasseigne, Frank M. Fory, R. D. White, Frank Stephenson, H. L. Holland and A. A. Mangum.
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Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Tuesday, July 19, 1960

Personals

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moise have just returned from Shreveport where they attended the funeral of her brother, Mr. Leo Jones, who died Thursday morning. The late Mr. Jones will be remembered here as the brother of Messrs. Keith, Reginald and Clifford Jones and of Mrs. Joseph Gregg. Mr. and Mrs. Moise spent the weekend in Baton Rouge with Mrs. Gregg before returning to their home in Centreville.