Date of birth: 14 Apr 1908
Date of death: 17 Jan 1988

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Burial Information

Section 12 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0279-07
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Claud Leake Jones, Sr.

Claud Leake Jones, Sr., 79, of Ocean Springs died Sunday, Jan. 17 in Biloxi. Mr. Jones was a native of Holmes County and had been a farmer in the Delta until his retirement in 1968. He was a 1929 graduate of the University of Mississippi and a member of the Council Chapter and Knights Templar of the Lexington Masonic Lodge. He was past master of the Lexington Masonic Lodge and a Shriner. Mr. Jones was an Episcopalian.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Fay Wallace Jones of Ocean Springs; two sons, Claud L. Jones, Jr, of Midland, Texas, and William W. Jones of Greenwood: one daughter, Mrs. Fay Webb of Long Beach; and two grandchildren.

The body was sent from Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home in Ocean Springs to Wilson-Knight Funeral Home in Greenwood. Graveside services with Masonic rites were held Monday, January 18 at Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington at 3:00 p.m.

The family prefers memorials to the Hospice Program of Gulf Coast Community Hospital in Biloxi.

The Holmes County Herald (Lexington, MS)
January 28, 1988, Vol. 30, No. 4, Pg. 3

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Inscription

Son of William Barksdale & Ethel Keirn Jones

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Family Members

Parents
William Barksdale Jones
1874–1928

Ethel Keirn Jones
1888–1942

Spouse
Fay Wallace Jones
1917–2013

Children
Claud Leake Jones Jr
1935–2016

Fay Jones Webb
1936–2022

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