During my first year as a newspaper reporter in the Covington/Mandeville area, I wrote several articles about Sherrie Jones, a high school student at Mandeville High School. She entered and won several local and regional pageants. Her mother Carrie was her publicist, and she did a great job of keeping the local press informed on Sherrie's accomplishments.
She was a remarkable young person, a community volunteer and admired by her classmates. Here are a number of articles about her that I had in my files, clipped from several newspapers in the years 1972 and 1973. Click on the images to make them larger.
My feature article on Sherrie in 1972, above
She was married in Baton Rouge in 1977. I was invited to the wedding since I had a sound movie camera and filmed the special occasion for her mother.
Sherrie then moved to Lake Providence, LA, where she sold original paintings and photographs from her gallery "Straight From The Heart Art."
Sherrie died in August of 1999 at 44 years of age. Here is her obituary.
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Below is a picture of her mother, Carrie Jones, who was an area real estate agent
Carrie Jones Obituary
Carrie Anita Woods Jones, 88, passed away peacefully at her home on May 25, 2021. She was a native of Houston, Texas, and a resident of Covington, Louisiana, for the last 54 years. Carrie attended San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she met her husband, Charles R. Jones.
She was an educator in the Houston public schools, Mandeville High School, Mandeville Middle School, and Our Lady of the Lake elementary school. Carrie was also a realtor for many years working for Latter & Blum and Prudential Louisiana Properties.
She was a past secretary and vice-president of the St. Tammany Parish Fair Association and the director of talent shows and pageants in Covington and Mandeville. She was a member of St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce, St Tammany Art Association, Habitat for Humanity, Board of Friends of the Madisonville Otis House Museum, Leadership of St. Tammany Foundation, Daughters of the American Revolution, and St. Tammany Genealogy Society.
Carrie was an active member of First Baptist Church of Covington. Carrie was the daughter of the late John and Carrie Cain Woods and was preceded in death by her daughter Sherrie Howard, grandson Nathanael Howard, and brother John Scott Woods. Survivors include daughter Cindie Jones, son Charlie R. Jones, Jr., daughter-in-law Theresa Jones, sister Barbara Donovan, sister-in-law Joyce Woods, grandchildren Carrie and Mark Uberecken, Charlie and Molly Jones, Grace and Cody Hitchcock, Sammy and Natalie Jones, Eli Jones, nine great-grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews. She was buried in Cain Cemetery, Franklin County, Mississippi.
