Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Friday, February 20, 1976

Mrs. Minnie Jones

DODSON -- Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie C. Jones, 82, of Dodson, were to be at 2 p.m. today at Cypress Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Waymon Mott and the Rev. Louis Moffett officiating.

Burial was to be in the church cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home of Winnfield. She died Wednesday afternoon in Winnfield General Hospital after a brief illness.

Mrs. Jones was a native of Bienville Parish and a member of the Cypress Creek Baptist Church.

Survivors include four sons, Durwood Jones and Olan Jones, both of Dodson, Delbert Jones of Goldonna and Roger Jones of Winnfield; two daughters, Mrs. Earline Driskill of Tyler, Tex., and Mrs. Laverne Copeland of Dodson; one brother, Alton Caskey of Winnfield; six sisters, Mrs. C. N. Chandler of Calvin, Mrs. Eva Cockerham of Teague, Tex., Mrs. Morgan Box of Waxahachie, Tex., Mrs. Paul M. Grigsby of Ruston, Mrs. Ben Possio of Atlanta (La.), and Mrs. Ozie Cockerham of Homer; 16 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.