Vermon Powell
Posted: March 30, 2009
ALICEVILLE, Ala. — Vermon Jones Powell, 90, died March 28, 2009, at Aliceville Manor Nursing Home. Services are Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Garden Baptist Church with the Revs. David Barrentine and Raymond Robertson officiating. Burial will follow at Franconia-Oak Grove Cemetery. Visitation is Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at Dogwood Chapel in Aliceville, and the body will be at the church 30 minutes prior to services on Wednesday. Skelton Funeral Home of Reform, Ala., is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Powell was born May 14, 1918, in Fayette County, Ala., to the late Felix Barnes and Mertie Belle Housh Barnes. She was a member of Garden Baptist Church and a homemaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Robert Jones Sr. and Carson Powell. She is survived by her sons, Robert E. Jones Jr. of Pell City, Ala., and Benny Jones of Oak Hill, Fla.; stepsons, Michael Powell of Montgomery, Ala., and Cleveland Powell of Little Rock, Ark.; three grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren and four great-grandchildren.