Baby Ellen ‘Tight’ Honore A Homegoing Celebration for Baby Ellen “Tight” Honore, 63, the former Baby Ellen Jones, also known as “Ella”, will be held at 11a.m. Saturday, June 27, 2009, at Journet and Bolden Funeral Home Chapel. Pastor James Washington Jr. will be officiating. Interment will be in St. Matthew Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 7 a..m. at the funeral home chapel until time of service. Ellen was a native of New Iberia where she spent most of here life, but was a resident of Jeanerette for the past four years. Ellen peacefully passed away on Monday, June 15, 2009, here in New Iberia with her family at her side. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilson Honore Jr.; mother, Matilda Jones; son David Honore; two sisters Flora Lee Jones and Matilda Jones; one grandson Wilson Honore IV and her godmother, Mary Jones Cola. Ellen is survived by her father, Clarence Jones, Sr. and his companion, Barbara; five sons Wilson (Wilona) Honore III and Tarie Jones, both of Jeanerette, Michael Honore of New Haven, Conn., Terry Honore, and Tyrail Gilliam, both of New Iberia; three daughters Ella M. Day of New Iberia, Quanisha Honore and Tynisha Honore, both of Jeanerette; two grandchildren she reared as her own, LaToya (Quantrelle) Daye-Allen and Derek Williams, both of New Iberia; nine siblings Norris (Francis) Benjamin Sr., Junius (Dorothy) Jones, Clarence (Linda) Jones, Sylvio Jones, Ernest Jones, Hilda (Joseph) Evans, Mary McDaniel and Anna Jones, all of New Iberia and Junious (Georgiana) George Sr. of Sorrell; 18 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a host of nieces, nephews other relatives, friends and the children she reared as a foster parent for eight years. Active pallbearers will be Michael Honore Jr., Torrance Benjamin, Larry Collins, Edward Dorsey, David George, Thalamus Gardner, Carl Fusilier, and Shawn Benjamin. Personal condolences may be expressed to the family at journetandboldenfuneralhome.com Arrangements are entrusted to Journet and Bolden Funeral Home, 711 S. Corinne St, New Iberia, 369-3638.
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