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[[Category:Business People]]
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Everett Holman Jones
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Representative<br> for Allen and Vernon parishes
|term_start=1968
|term_end=1972
|preceded=T. J. Strother (Allen Parish)<br>
Bert A. Adams (Vernon Parish)
|succeeded=[[James David Cain]]
|birth_date=December 17, 1926
|birth_place=Oakdale, Allen Parish, Louisiana, USA
|death_date=January 12, 2014 (aged 87)
|death_place=[[Lafayette]], Louisiana
|resting_place=Oakdale Cemetery
|residence=Oakdale, Louisiana
|spouse=Patricia Roberts Jones (married 1950-2014, his death)
|children=Fredrick Holman Jones<br>
John Craig Jones<br>
Marilyn Ann Jones<br>
Susan Lynn Jones Murry<br>
Patrick Jones<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Jessie Holman Jones and Maggie Williams Jones.
|party= [[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|religion=[[Southern Baptist]]
|occupation=[[Business]]man:<br>Owner, Magnolia Printing Company
|alma_mater=Oakdale High School<br>
Sowela Technical Community College
|branch=[[United States Navy]]
|battles=[[World War II]]
}}
'''Everett Holman Jones''', known as '''E. Holman Jones''' (December 17, 1926 – January 12, 2014), was a [[business]]man from his native Oakdale, [[Louisiana]], who was a [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state representative for Allen and Vernon parishes. He served a single term from 1968 until 1972 during the second administration of [[Governor]] [[John J. McKeithen]].<ref name=house>{{cite web|url=https://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2024|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=December 18, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
Jones was the older son of the late Jessie Holman Jones and the former Maggie Williams. His brother, John Roland Jones, preceded him in death. Jones was a descendant of the Thomas Welch family, one of the first seven families to settle Oakdale and to establish the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church there. Jones graduated from Oakdale High School, where he played on the football team and was a captain in the [[Reserve Officer Training Corps]]. He was later the president of the alumni association. He was a [[radio]]man in the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. After the war, he attended what is now Southwest Louisiana (Sowela) Technical Community College in [[Lake Charles]].<ref name=ehjones>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=e-holman-jones&pid=169081989&fhid=20731|title=E. Holman Jones|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=January 14, 2014}}</ref>
==Career==
For more than a half-century, Jones owned Magnolia Printing Company. For fifteen years, he was the publisher and owner of ''The Oakdale Journal'' and ''The Oakdale Beacon,'' which he began in 1960 with Harold H. Hudgins, Jr. (1916-2000),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hudgins&GSfn=Harold&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1110&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=31446303&df=all&|title=Harold H. Hudgins, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=December 18, 2020}}</ref> as a free publication offering parish news and local advertising.<ref name=ehjones/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eunicetoday.com/obituaries/deaths-elsewhere-51|title=Deaths Elsewhere: E. Holman Jones|publisher=''Eunice Today''|accessdate=January 14, 2014}}</ref>
In his one legislative term, Jones served alongside his fellow Democrat Anthony Claude "Buddy" Leach, Jr., then of Leesville in Vernon Parish, who was from 1979 to 1981 a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] for Louisiana's 4th congressional district.<ref name=house/> Representative Jones secured scholarships for many students in Allen Parish, promoted the development of rural infrastructure through his service on the Long Range Highway Committee, and worked to secure the establishment of the 33rd Judicial District Court.<ref name=ehjones/>
Jones was a former member of the Jaycees and an officer of the Oakdale Area [[Chamber of Commerce]]. He was affiliated with Lions International and the Masonic lodge. He was a member of the Oakdale Industrial Development Board. He was a long-term president of the Oakdale Recreation District board of directors. During his tenure in that capacity, two swimming pools and three ball fields were built and maintained. Teams often went to district and state playoffs.<ref name=ehjones/>
In 2000, Jones received the "Civic Service Award" from the Oakdale Area Chamber of Commerce. In 1992, he obtained the "State School Bell Award" from the Louisiana Press Association for the promotion of educational excellence. In 1999, he received the "Sam Walton Business Leader Award" named for [[Wal-Mart]] founder [[Sam Walton]]. Jones and his wife together received the "Community Award for Outstanding Support" for the Allen Parish Sheriff's Department.<ref name=ehjones/>
==Death==
Jones died at the age of eighty-seven in Lafayette General Hospital in [[Lafayette]], Louisiana. He was married for some sixty-three years to the former Patricia Roberts (born 1930), who survives him. The couple has five children, Fredrick Holman Jones and wife Rita and John Craig Jones, all of Oakdale; Marilyn Ann Jones Lee and husband, Joe R. "Buddy" Lee, of Lafayette; Susan Lynn Jones Murry and husband, William E. "Bill" Murry, of Oakdale, and Patrick Jones and wife Karen of [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]] in Rapides Parish. Services were held on January 15, 2014 in the First Baptist Church of Oakdale, with interment at Oakdale Cemetery.<ref name=ehjones/>
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