Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Saturday, January 21, 1967

Mrs. Jones Expires Here

Mrs. Ward T. Jones, 52, prominent Alexandria civic leader, died at 1:05 p.m. Friday in an Alexandria hospital.

Funeral services were to be held at 3:30 p.m. today at the First Methodist church in Pineville with Rev. Earl B. Emmerich officiating. Burial was to be in Greenwood Memorial Park under direction of Hixson Bros. Funeral Home.

Mrs. Jones, the former Mary Frere Caffery, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Caffery of Columbia Plantation in Franklin. She was born on April 7, 1915.

She lived at 2736 George's Lane in Alexandria and was active in numerous civic organizations.

Mrs. Jones attended Sophie Newcomb College and received a B. S. degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. She received her laboratory certificate from John Sealy hospital at the University of Texas Medical School and was employed as a medical technician there.

She was president of Kent Plantation House Inc., an organization formed to save and restore the historic Kent House, an ante-bellum home built here 170 years ago.

Active in Civic Groups

She was a member of the board of directors of the Alexandria-Pineville Guidance and Rehabilitation Center in 1960-61, and a member of the board of directors of the Alexandria-Pineville YWCA in 1964-65. She was also a member of the Colonial Dames, St. Frances Cabrini Hospital Auxiliary and the First Methodist church of Pineville.

She was a former Cub Scout den mother and was a Brownie Troop leader for the Girl Scouts.

Survivors include her husband, Ward T. Jones; two sons, Ward Randolph Jones and John Caffery Jones, both of Alexandria; a daughter, Mrs. David Werner, Dallas, Tex.; a sister, Mrs. H. T. Hilliard, Houston, Tex.; three brothers, Donelson T. Caffery and Clegg Caffery, both of Columbia Plantation, and John Murphy Caffery, New Orleans, and a grandson, John Donelson Werner, Dallas.

The body was at the First Methodist church in Pineville from 9 a.m. today.

The family requests that memorial donations be made to the American Leukemia Society or other charitable organizations.