Lawrence A. Powell will have charge of funeral arrangements.
Naples Daily News Aug.3,1966
Cale Howard Jones, Naples first police chief, died quietly in his sleep yesterday at his home at 144 10th Ave, South.
Jones was 63 years of age, a native of Jasper, Georgia. He moved to Naples in 1923. In his death, Naples loses one of it's most colorful figures. When Naples was incorporated in 1924, he was appointed it's first City Marshal. The jail was then in the " Paw Paw" Patch, located in the area between Crayton Cove and the Old Naples Hotel.
A quite man, Jones kept the peace in Naples with only a two man force. When the office of Police chief was created, he was appointed as it's first chief and served in that capacity until his retirement in 1958, a period of nearly 31 years.
Besides his wife, Mrs.Alice Jones, he is survived by two sons, Cale Jones of Naples, and Charles Edward Jones, a sergeant on the Naples Police Department. Two brothers, Stephen Allison and Jesse Floyd, both of Naples; one sister, Mrs Ethel Roland of Grant City, Alabama, and six grandchildren.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Naples, The Elks, and the National and International Association of Police Chiefs.
Friends may call at the Richard A.Pittman Funeral Home from 2 to 5 o'clock Thursday and from 7 to 9 Thursday night.
Funeral services will be at 2 o'clock friday afternoon in the chapel of the Pittman Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Naples Memorial Gardens.
Rev.John E. Rice, pastor of the First Methodist church, will conduct the services.
In addition to police, honorary pallbearers will include Eugene Gandees, Cecil Tuell and Clyde McFry.
Active pallbearers wil be Mayor Archie Turner, Harry Lundquist, County Tax Collector A.P.Ayers, Lee County Sheriff " Snag" Thompson, Capt. Preston Sawyer, and Richie Yannaco.
Burial will be in Naples Memorial Gardens.
A resident since 1923, coming from Mississippi, she was a member of the First United Methodist church.
She is survived by her husband, Johnnie W. Kimbrell of Naples; two sons, Buster Jones of Bartow, Fla, and Ed Jones of Fort Myers; her mother,Mrs Ruby Lowery of Biloxi, Miss.;two brothers, James and Gene Lowery; three sisters, Mrs. Villorie Sermoure, Mrs. Ruby Fentrekin and Mrs.Margaret Bickford, all of Biloxi, Miss.; six grandchildren and one great granddaughter.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 11am from the Earl G. Hodges Funeral Chapel with the Rev. James R. Crook Jr, of the First Methodist Church officiating.
Burial will follow in Naples Memorial Gardens.
Friends may call at the Hodges Chapel today from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm.
