Leroy E. Jones (1966)

JONES, BAKER, MCDONALD, ROGERS, ELIFRITZ, PARKER, JENKINS, MCNEELY, SEWARD, KATCHEA, BRITT

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 8/20/2006 at 19:39:44

Winterset Madisonian
1966

LEROY JONES OF WINTERSET DIES

Resident Here for Past 13 Years Was 61 Years Of Age

LeRoy E. Jones, a resident of Winterset for the past 13 years, died this Tuesday Jan. 4th at Memorial Hospital in Winterset. He was 61 years of age.

Mr. Jones was a native of Des Moines, where he was born Oct. 1, 1904, a son of Carl and Carrie McDonald Jones. He was married in 1926 at Pontiac, Mich., to Alice Baker, who survives him.

He came to Winterset 13 years ago and worked as a body and fender repairman. He had been in business for himself here and also worked with the Mills Motor company.

He was a member of the Open Bible church in Des Moines.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Jones is survived by three sons, Alfred Jones of West Palm Beach, Fla., and Gary and William Jones of Winterset; a daughter, Mrs. Elsie Rogers of Waterloo; eight grandchildren; two brothers, Lester and Carl Jones of Des Moines; and seven sisters, Mrs. Florence Elifritz, Mrs. Jesse Parker, Mrs. Mary Jenkins, Mrs. Dorothy McNeely and Mrs. Lula Seward, all of Des Moines, Mrs. Virginia Katchea of Pontiac, Mich., and Mrs. Catherine Britt of Colfax.

Funeral services will be held this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. from the Wilson Funeral home in Winterset, in charge of the Rev. Leon Seager. Burial will be made in the Stuart cemetery.