Services for Cornelius “Son” Jones Sr. will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Porters Chapel M.B. Church. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 10 a.m. until the service.

Mr. Jones died Monday, Nov. 28, 2011, at his home. He was 97.

He was a member of Porters Chapel M.B. Church, where he served on the deacon board. He retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Waterways Experiment Station after 35 years of service.