Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Thursday, October 16, 2003

OLAN LAMAR JONES

Funeral Services for Olan Lamar Jones, 82, of Dodson, LA will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, October 16th, at Cypress Creek Baptist Church in Dodson. Reverends Nicholas Verrett and Robert Leach will officiate. Interment will follow in the Cypress Creek Cemetery under the supervision of Southern Funeral Home in Winnfield.

Olan passed away on Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at the Winn Parish Medical Center in Winnfield after a lengthy illness. He was born in the Cypress Creek community on June 26, 1921. After serving in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, Olan began a career as a pipeline engineer that spanned five decades. He helped construct pipelines in approximately half the continental United States, England and Panama. He was especially proud of having engineered the most difficult stretches of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Olan was a lifelong member of the Cypress Creek Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by a son, Jimmy Lamar Jones, his parents Wiley and Minnie Caskey Jones and three brothers, Durwood, Waymon and Delbert Jones.

Survivors include his loving wife of nearly 59 years, Laura Lillian Scoggin Jones and three sons: Danny L. Jones and his wife Sarah of West Monroe, Larry L. Jones and his wife Patsy of Monroe, and Terry L. Jones and his wife Carol of West Monroe. Olan was lovingly known as ``Pop'' to his eight grandchildren: David Jones and his wife Sherry, Mason Jones, Clay Chandler and his wife Emily, Sarah Chandler, Ben Jones, Mary Jones, Laura Jones and Amie Jones. He had two great- grandsons, Ryan and Austin Jones. Olan is also survived by two sisters, Earline Driskill of Tyler, TX, Laverne Copeland and her husband Preston of Dodson, and one brother, Rodger Jones and his wife Shirley of Winnfield. He leaves behind many beloved nieces and nephews and extended family.

Pallbearers will be David Jones, Mason Jones, Clay Chandler, Ben Jones, Brian Jones, Steve Copeland, Jimmy Jones and Clay Scoggin.

Memorials may be made to the Cypress Creek Cemetery Fund.