Walter Jones Jr. died Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, at Promise Specialty Hospital. He was 58.

Mr. Jones retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District Mat Sinking Unit. He was an Army veteran, having served in Vietnam. He was a 1970 graduate of Rosa A. Temple High School.

He is survived by his wife, Shelly Jones of Vicksburg; his stepchildren, Jackie Brown Jr., Roderick Brown and Lasonya Brown, all of Vicksburg; one brother, Donald Carl Jones of Vicksburg; and other relatives, including Mary Moore, Harold Bell and James Jones, all of Vicksburg.

Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.