Chester Jones, 32 years old, a former employe of the International shoe Co., died at 5:30 a.m. today, while in an ambulance on the way to Southeast Missouri Hospital a few minutes after he had been found lying beside the Frisco Railroad main line track immediately east of the shoe plant on North Main Street.
Funeral services for Jones will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Haman Funeral Home, with Rev. W.E. Hicks, pastor of Red Star Baptist Church, in charge.
Jones' father said his son had been having difficulty getting employment, and the young man had recently been sleeping at his father's home, 301 Mill street. Chester Jones' wife and their two children were living with Mrs. Daisy Turner, mother of Mrs. Jones, 805 North Main street.
Surviving Jones, besides his widow and children and his father, are 15 brothers and sisters. They are Sam, Raymond, Earl, Mrs. Hazel Brooks, Mrs. Dora Eakins, Frank, Albert, Cleo and Norma Lee and Eloide, Twins; Ruth and Ruby, twins, and Jeanette and Jean, also twins, and George N. Jones.
Joins, for about 10 years, prior to four months ago, was employed at the International plant as a cutter. Since that time he had worked little, his father said, but was on a work relief job Wednesday.
Funeral services for Jones will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Haman Funeral Home, with Rev. W.E. Hicks, pastor of Red Star Baptist Church, in charge.
Jones' father said his son had been having difficulty getting employment, and the young man had recently been sleeping at his father's home, 301 Mill street. Chester Jones' wife and their two children were living with Mrs. Daisy Turner, mother of Mrs. Jones, 805 North Main street.
Surviving Jones, besides his widow and children and his father, are 15 brothers and sisters. They are Sam, Raymond, Earl, Mrs. Hazel Brooks, Mrs. Dora Eakins, Frank, Albert, Cleo and Norma Lee and Eloide, Twins; Ruth and Ruby, twins, and Jeanette and Jean, also twins, and George N. Jones.
Joins, for about 10 years, prior to four months ago, was employed at the International plant as a cutter. Since that time he had worked little, his father said, but was on a work relief job Wednesday.
Chester Jones, 32 years old, a former employe of the International shoe Co., died at 5:30 a.m. today, while in an ambulance on the way to Southeast Missouri Hospital a few minutes after he had been found lying beside the Frisco Railroad main line track immediately east of the shoe plant on North Main Street.
Funeral services for Jones will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Haman Funeral Home, with Rev. W.E. Hicks, pastor of Red Star Baptist Church, in charge.
Jones' father said his son had been having difficulty getting employment, and the young man had recently been sleeping at his father's home, 301 Mill street. Chester Jones' wife and their two children were living with Mrs. Daisy Turner, mother of Mrs. Jones, 805 North Main street.
Surviving Jones, besides his widow and children and his father, are 15 brothers and sisters. They are Sam, Raymond, Earl, Mrs. Hazel Brooks, Mrs. Dora Eakins, Frank, Albert, Cleo and Norma Lee and Eloide, Twins; Ruth and Ruby, twins, and Jeanette and Jean, also twins, and George N. Jones.
Joins, for about 10 years, prior to four months ago, was employed at the International plant as a cutter. Since that time he had worked little, his father said, but was on a work relief job Wednesday.
Funeral services for Jones will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Haman Funeral Home, with Rev. W.E. Hicks, pastor of Red Star Baptist Church, in charge.
Jones' father said his son had been having difficulty getting employment, and the young man had recently been sleeping at his father's home, 301 Mill street. Chester Jones' wife and their two children were living with Mrs. Daisy Turner, mother of Mrs. Jones, 805 North Main street.
Surviving Jones, besides his widow and children and his father, are 15 brothers and sisters. They are Sam, Raymond, Earl, Mrs. Hazel Brooks, Mrs. Dora Eakins, Frank, Albert, Cleo and Norma Lee and Eloide, Twins; Ruth and Ruby, twins, and Jeanette and Jean, also twins, and George N. Jones.
Joins, for about 10 years, prior to four months ago, was employed at the International plant as a cutter. Since that time he had worked little, his father said, but was on a work relief job Wednesday.
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