Oscar Ingram Jones

REV. OSCAR INGRAM JONES, 61, A RETIRED CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY MINISTER, DIED EARLY THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME AFTER AN EXTENDED ILLNESS.
BORN SEPTEMBER 8, 1908, IN JOHNSTON COUNTY, HE WQAS SON OF THE LATE L. TURNER AND MARY EVANS JONES. HE HAD SERVED CHURCHES IN SELMA, BOGUE, HIGH POINT, CRUMPLER’S CROSSROADS, SPRING HOPE, ROCKY MOUNT, CASTALIA, AND ERWIN. HE ATTENDED SCHOOLS IN JOHONSTON COUNTY AND WAS A GRADUATE OF THE BIBLE TRAINING INSTITUTE OF CLEVELAND, TENN.
REV. JONES WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROCKY MOUNT CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY, WHERE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TUESDAY AT 3PM. THE REV. JOHNNY BRAGG WILL OFFICIATE AND BURIAL WILL FOLLOW IN PINEVIEW CEMETERY.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MRS. LILLIE OLIVER JONES OF THE HOME; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. HILDA JONES WILLIAMS OF WILMINGTON AND MRS. JANICE JONES LAND OF THE HOME; ONE GRANDCHILD; ONE BROTHER, LESTER JONES OF SELMA; TWO SISTERS, MRS. F.L. MITCHELL OF PRINCETON AND MRS. W.H. WALL OF RALEIGH; SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
FRIENDS MAY CALL AT THE HOME, 1709 BURTON ST. OR AT JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME.
THE BODY WILL REMAIN AT THE FUNERAL HOME UNTIL 1:30 TUESDAY, WHEN IT WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CHURCH FOR SERVICES.