Extracted from The Grenada Star (Grenada, MS)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Ricky Earl Jones

Funeral services for Ricky Earl Jones, 54, of Grenada, were at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, at the National Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in Carroll County.

Visitation was Sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at National Funeral Home.

Ricky died Oct. 17, 2013, at AMG Specialty Hospital in Greenwood.

He was born on July 24, 1959, and was the son of the late John D. Jones and Bertha Louise Mathis Jones of Monterey, Calif.

Ricky had been employed by a freight company in the Jackson area as a delivery driver. He was a member of Southside Baptist Church in Winona.

He is survived by four sisters, Irene Carpenter of Grenada, Betty Upchurch and Ann Earwood, both of Florence, Miss., and Eva Covington of Oakland, Miss.; four brothers, John D. Jones Jr. of Fresno, Calif., Thomas Jones of Oakland, Miss., Charlie O. Jones of Kilmichael, and Doyle Jones of Grenada.

On-line condolences may be made at www.nfhgrenada.com.

National Funeral Home was in charge.