"S/Sgt. Willie Odell Jones, son of William J. and Malinda Johnston Jones of Fort Necessity, Franklin Parish, Louisiana was captured by the Japanese March 7, 1942 during the Bataan death march and died in July 1942 while a prisoner of war.
Funeral services for Willie were at the Oak Grove Baptist Church with Rev. A. C. Trapp officiating. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home. Graveside military rites were under the direction of the Diamond-Hawthorne American Legion Post and the Hannah-Richarderson Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors, besides his parents, were three brothers, Grady and Huey Jones, both of Fort Necessity, LA., Louie Jones of Winnsboro, LA.; four sisters, Mrs. Viola Herriage, Mrs. Florence Gordy, Mrs. Annie Mae Moore and Mrs. Nellie Stephens, all of Fort Necessity, LA.
On November 8, 1978, in a letter to the editor of the Franklin Sun, Elizabeth Tillotson refers to Willie as "one of my boys". She, also, calls Willie "Depression's Child" as she remembers his "threading his way down the basketball court at Fort Necessity High School like a bright and flashing needle, looking for Pete Desha and the completion of the old 1-2-3 pass that always worked so well for them, looking to sew up two more points for Fort. Willie's last test of strength in giving his all for the team ended in the Bataan Death March in the Pacific, far away from the little school and community that had loved and nurtured him".
Funeral services for Willie were at the Oak Grove Baptist Church with Rev. A. C. Trapp officiating. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home. Graveside military rites were under the direction of the Diamond-Hawthorne American Legion Post and the Hannah-Richarderson Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors, besides his parents, were three brothers, Grady and Huey Jones, both of Fort Necessity, LA., Louie Jones of Winnsboro, LA.; four sisters, Mrs. Viola Herriage, Mrs. Florence Gordy, Mrs. Annie Mae Moore and Mrs. Nellie Stephens, all of Fort Necessity, LA.
On November 8, 1978, in a letter to the editor of the Franklin Sun, Elizabeth Tillotson refers to Willie as "one of my boys". She, also, calls Willie "Depression's Child" as she remembers his "threading his way down the basketball court at Fort Necessity High School like a bright and flashing needle, looking for Pete Desha and the completion of the old 1-2-3 pass that always worked so well for them, looking to sew up two more points for Fort. Willie's last test of strength in giving his all for the team ended in the Bataan Death March in the Pacific, far away from the little school and community that had loved and nurtured him".
"S/Sgt. Willie Odell Jones, son of William J. and Malinda Johnston Jones of Fort Necessity, Franklin Parish, Louisiana was captured by the Japanese March 7, 1942 during the Bataan death march and died in July 1942 while a prisoner of war.
Funeral services for Willie were at the Oak Grove Baptist Church with Rev. A. C. Trapp officiating. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home. Graveside military rites were under the direction of the Diamond-Hawthorne American Legion Post and the Hannah-Richarderson Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors, besides his parents, were three brothers, Grady and Huey Jones, both of Fort Necessity, LA., Louie Jones of Winnsboro, LA.; four sisters, Mrs. Viola Herriage, Mrs. Florence Gordy, Mrs. Annie Mae Moore and Mrs. Nellie Stephens, all of Fort Necessity, LA.
On November 8, 1978, in a letter to the editor of the Franklin Sun, Elizabeth Tillotson refers to Willie as "one of my boys". She, also, calls Willie "Depression's Child" as she remembers his "threading his way down the basketball court at Fort Necessity High School like a bright and flashing needle, looking for Pete Desha and the completion of the old 1-2-3 pass that always worked so well for them, looking to sew up two more points for Fort. Willie's last test of strength in giving his all for the team ended in the Bataan Death March in the Pacific, far away from the little school and community that had loved and nurtured him".
Funeral services for Willie were at the Oak Grove Baptist Church with Rev. A. C. Trapp officiating. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home. Graveside military rites were under the direction of the Diamond-Hawthorne American Legion Post and the Hannah-Richarderson Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Survivors, besides his parents, were three brothers, Grady and Huey Jones, both of Fort Necessity, LA., Louie Jones of Winnsboro, LA.; four sisters, Mrs. Viola Herriage, Mrs. Florence Gordy, Mrs. Annie Mae Moore and Mrs. Nellie Stephens, all of Fort Necessity, LA.
On November 8, 1978, in a letter to the editor of the Franklin Sun, Elizabeth Tillotson refers to Willie as "one of my boys". She, also, calls Willie "Depression's Child" as she remembers his "threading his way down the basketball court at Fort Necessity High School like a bright and flashing needle, looking for Pete Desha and the completion of the old 1-2-3 pass that always worked so well for them, looking to sew up two more points for Fort. Willie's last test of strength in giving his all for the team ended in the Bataan Death March in the Pacific, far away from the little school and community that had loved and nurtured him".
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