Jones Funeral Home

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Jones Funeral Home offers compassionate, professional funeral and cremation care to people from all walks of life. We believe every service should be as unique as the life lived.

Dedicated to helping celebrate your life or the life of a loved one with tailored services that truly reflect the person being honored, the team at Jones Funeral Home offers knowledge and compassion you can count on. Our experienced and caring staff blends traditional values with contemporary products and services to memorialize every life with attention to detail.

Personalized funerals and cremation memorials

The professional associates at Jones Funeral Home are experienced in meeting the needs and wishes of families from variety of backgrounds, faiths and cultures. With patience and care we listen to what is important to you. Whether traditional funeral or cremation memorial, intimate scattering ceremony or grand celebration, there are choices that reflect your personal preferences, family traditions and cultural values.

Planning experts

Losing someone you love can be very painful. Planning your funeral and purchasing cemetery property in advance makes it easier on your family. In fact, one of the greatest gifts you can give your loved ones is planning and funding final arrangements ahead of time. When you plan ahead, you get to carefully consider your options and make choices that ensure your life is remembered and celebrated the way you want—but you also lock in today’s prices and protect your family from worrying about money.

We are experts in pre-planning and offer in-person and virtual consultations. We'll take the time to get to know you and carefully explain what's available, including paying in installments.

Here when you need us

If you would like to talk about pre-planning a funeral or have an immediate need, contact us and we'll be in touch right away. We're honored you're considering Jones Funeral Home for funeral or cremation services, and we're here with compassionate, professional care day and night.

History

The timeline of Jones Funeral home begins in 1977, when Janis and Jessie Jones Jr. and Mildred and Hilliard Buckner opened Buckner-Jones Funeral Home in Franklin, Louisiana, after recognizing a need for an additional funeral provider in St. Mary Parish.

With a focus on service excellence and the Black community, the two families began to grow their operations. They opened a second location in 1979. They called it Buckner-Jones Chapel and it sat in the Siracusa subdivision on the outer city limits of Morgan City. Byron Jones, the eldest son of Janis and Jessie, joined the business that same year.

Buckner-Jones Chapel was moved in 1983 to 715 Sixth St. in Morgan City. Just a few years later, in 1986, the Buckners sold their interest in the business to the Jones family, who changed the name to reflect that decision.

Janis Jones, who'd been working in the St. Mary Parish School System until 1994, retired from her first career and became a licensed funeral director in 1997. Andre’ Jones, the second son of Janis and Jessie, joined the family business in 2004 and became a licensed funeral director in 2006.

That same year, the Franklin location was relocated to 1101 Main St. With a 2,000-square-foot chapel, Jones Funeral Home now had a place to hold large services and better meet the needs of the community. The company was also nearly ready for a third location, and in 2010, Jones Funeral Home acquired Alex Lovette Funeral Services in Jeanerette.

In 2013, the Jones family opened a fourth location in Houma.

Jessie Jones Jr. lived to be 83, passing on in 2018. His dedication to the families of Bayou Country lives on in the four funeral homes he helped establish. All the Jones Funeral homes became part of the Dignity Memorial family of funeral homes, crematories and cemeteries in 2023.