Larry Jones
Posted: April 27, 2017
ARTESIA — Services for Larry Doby Jones will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Prairie Hill MB Church. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation is from noon-5 p.m .today at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home. Mr. Jones was born Jan. 15, 1955, to the late Sylvester and Rebecca Jones in Artesia. He was a member of Prairie Hill MB Church. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brothers, Otis J. Brown and Charlie “Winky” Jones. He is survived by his daughters, Tamara McGee Jones Liddll of Columbus and Tiffany Nicole Wells of Hampton, Virginia; son, Jamar Ahmad Jones of Richmond, Virginia; sisters, Vera Jones-Wilkins of Deptford, New Jersey, Velina Jones Dixon of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Faye Nell Jones of Corona, California; brothers, Leonard Cornelious Brown of Columbus, Joe Lee Brown of Bellwood, Illinois, Jessie V. Jones of Kirkwood, Missouri, Sammie C. McGee of Ballwin, Missouri, Thomas Earl Jones of Des Moines, Iowa, Arthur McGee of Artesia and Kenneth Ray Jones of Stafford, Virginia; and four grandchildren.