ALTON ‘BROTHER’ JONES

Published 5:00 am Thursday, September 10, 2009

Services for Alton “Brother” Jones, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Saturday, Sept. 12, at Cool Springs M.B. Church in McCall Creekwith burial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 6 p.m. at WilliamsMortuary.

Mr. Jones, 49, died Sept. 4, 2009, at the University ofMississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He was born in FranklinCounty on March 3, 1960, to Mike Jones Sr. and Louisa McCoryJones.

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He was a graduate of West Lincoln Attendance Center. Mr. Joneswas a handyman.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brothers, Louis”Pete” Jones and Henry Lee Jones; and a sister, Lena Mae Bass.

Survivors are his brothers, Albert Jones and wife, Annette, ofMt. Morris, Mich., Lamar Jones and wife, Sandra, of Flint, Mich.,Mike Jones and Jesse Jones, both of Brookhaven; his sisters, CarrieJones, of Flint, Gloria Turner, of Burton, Mich., Gladys Jones, ofBrookhaven, and Dorothy Lewis and husband, Winfrey, of Louisville,Ky.; a special aunt, Ella Mae “Cat” Washington, of Summit; and ahost of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives andfriends.