Elder Jones Obituary Battleboro, N.C. Elder Mattie B. Jones, 75, of Battleboro, North Carolina died Tuesday April 23, 2018 at South Village Health and Rehabilitation Center Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Funeral services will be held 12:00p.m. Saturday, April 28, 2018 at Kingdom Empowerment Ministries, Inc., Scotland Neck, North Carolina with Apostle Ernest Dickens officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Matthew Baptist Church cemetery. She is survived by two daughters, Lula Dickens (Oscar) Battleboro, North Carolina and Tonya Jones, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, four sons, Gordon Avent (Sandy) Wilson, North Carolina, Melvin Staton (Linda) Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Kenneth Jones, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and Kendrell Jones, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Six sisters Tinnie Cuffie, New Jersey, Savannah Avent, Nashville, North Carolina, Margaret Avent, Connecticut, Annie Bell Avent, Henderson, Nevada, Dorothy Avent, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and Linda Gomes, Virginia. Two brothers, Bill Avent, Rocky Mount North Carolina and Charles Avent, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, seventeen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. A viewing will be held from 4:00p.m. To 7:00p.m. on Friday, April 27, 2018 at Dickens Funeral Service, Inc. of Tarboro, North Carolina. These services have been entrusted to Dickens Funeral Service, Inc. of Tarboro, North Carolina.