Blanche Jones

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 16, 2007

FERRIDAY -— Services for Blanche Odelia Jones, 93, of Vidalia, who died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007, in Ferriday, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Comer Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Richard Cullum officiating.

Burial will follow at Natchez City Cemetery under the direction of Comer Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

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Mrs. Jones was born Aug. 2, 1914, the daughter of Ance Lofton and Florence Peavey Lofton. She was a homemaker and a lifelong resident of Concordia Parish. She was a Baptist.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles M. Jones; daughter, JoAnn Harris; and son, Larry Reagan.

Survivors include a son, John Paul Jones and wife, Joyce, both of Ferriday; daughters, June Harper and husband, Joe, both of Vidalia and Jean Ellis and husband, Herbert, both of Sicily Island; grandchildren she raised, Brenda , Billy, Juanita, Charles and Timmy; great-grandchild, Connie; 16 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and 35 great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Chris Harper, Lil John Maple, J.C. Calvitt, Mark Craft, Craig Pardue, Howard Smith, Jameson Price and Chris Ganey.

Honorary pallbearers will be Lil Johnny P. Jones, Joe Turner, Timmy Harris, Billy Harris, Clyde Boling and Charles Harris.