About Us

About Us

Henry L. Jones was eager to open his own funeral home after working in funeral service and insurance in Memphis, Carthage, and Hattiesburg. That dream became a reality in 1939 when he, his wife Nina, and their children, Tommy, Frank, and Sue, moved to Richton and opened a small funeral home in a storefront on Front Street in Richton. Roby and Zetha Oliphant came from Carthage to join them in the funeral service.

Within a few years, the Funeral Home moved to its present location on Cypress Street. Although the facility has been expanded since the original building was constructed, one wall of the present facility is an original wall of concrete blocks that Tommy and Frank helped to make as young boys.

Henry Jones served his community not only as a funeral home owner but as a civic servant as well. He served for 16 years on the Perry County Board of Supervisors and eight years as a member of the Legislature’s House of Representatives. Nina was active in all phases of the business as they started from the ground up to fulfill this lifelong goal. She was also very involved in the ministries of the First Baptist Church, the Richton Home and Garden Club, the Richton Woman’s Club, and other civic endeavors. Tommy opened the Jones Funeral Home in Ellisville in the early 1960’s and operated it until his death in 1972.

In 1977, Frank and Ann Jones joined the business and began to expand into other locations in the South Central Mississippi area with the opening of a full-service funeral facility in Moselle. In May 1986, a new facility was opened at Lake Serene, Hattiesburg, to serve the numerous policyholders in Lamar County who continued to carry their funeral insurance with Henry Jones after he moved from Hattiesburg to Richton. The chapel in Beaumont was opened in November 1986.

The company offers funeral and life insurance, a pre-need funeral program, and cemetery monuments in addition to funeral services. Frank continues to follow the principles of the funeral business practiced by his father and mother. “First, my father taught me that as a funeral director, you become an instant friend to the bereaved family.” He learned from his father that the funeral director must win the trust of the family and that the family must have confidence that the funeral director will give the proper care to the body of the deceased. Finally, the funeral director “must be attuned to the cultural mores and needs of the family and the community."

For more than 79 years, Jones and Son Funeral Home has been blessed with a loyal, competent, caring, and dedicated staff who truly try to follow the Golden Rule in all of their relationships with families during their time of great loss.