Dennis James Jones

Published 11:12 am Friday, February 3, 2017

By Holley Cochran

Graveside services for Mr. Dennis Jones were held at 10 a.m., Monday, Jan.30, 2017, at the Jones Family Cemetery. Mr. Jones was 57 years of age and died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2013, at his residence in Silver Creek. Rev. John Morris officiated. Saulters-Moore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers were Ronnie Hall, Quenton Gill, Walter Boleware, Mitchell Jones, Mitchell Boleware and Robert Jones.

Dennis James Jones was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 28, 1959, to James Taylor Jones and Barbara Ann Jacob Jones. Mr. Jones was a carpenter and a member of Calvary Baptist Church.

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He was preceded in death by his father; one sister, Irene Edwards and one brother, Patrick Jones.

Survivors are his wife of 31 years, Alice Jones of Silver Creek; his mother, Barbara Jones of Collins; two daughters, Kimberly Hall and her husband Ronnie of Gulfport and Elizabeth Gill and her husband Quenton of Silver Creek; four brothers, Michael Jones, James Jones, and Robert Jones, all of Collins, and Mitchell Jones and his wife Shilpa of Saucier; three sisters, Susan Warren and her husband Danny, Melinda Lucas and her husband Lavoid, and Diane Fortenberry and her husband James, all of Collins; and five grandchildren; as well a host of other relatives and friends.

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