Carolyn Ellis Jones

Background

Jones, Carolyn Ellis was born on February 21, 1928 in Marigold, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Joseph Lawrence and Willie Decelle (Forrest) Peeples.

Education

Student, Louisiana State University, 1949.

Career

Owner, manager Personnel and Business Service, Inc., Greenwood, Mississippi, 1962-1988. Owner Honor Public Company, 1988—2005. Retired

English as Second Language teacher at a Spanish Mission, near Sunflower, Mississippi, since 2004.

Membership

Member advisory board career education Greenwood Public Schools, 1975-1976, member advisory board vocational-technical department, 1975-1988. Conference leader Mississippi Baptist Convention Singles Retreat, 1980. Mission Service Corps delegate Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, Hawaii, 1979.

Team member United Methodist Volunteers in Mission, Estonia/Russia, 1996. Member Greenwood Chamber of Commerce (education committee since 1980, guest speaker career day program local high school), Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, Altrusa International, National Federation Indiana Business, Miss Delta Rose Society, Mississippi Native Plant Society, Gideon Auxiliary (president 1986-1988).

Interests

• Writing, rose exhibitions, wildflowers.

Connections

Married David Wright Ellis, May 30, 1945 (divorced 1966).; married Frank Willis Jones, January 1, 1980. Children: David, Lyn, Debbie, Dawn.

Father:

Joseph Lawrence Peeples

Mother:

Willie Decelle (Forrest) Peeples

Spouse:

Frank Willis Jones

Spouse:

David Wright Ellis

child:

Debbie Jones

child:

Lyn Jones

child:

David Jones

child:

Dawn Jones