

A native of Montgomery, Bobby was born on March 12, 1932. He attended Starke Military Academy and Lanier High School. After attending Huntington College, he joined the United States Air Force and served in the Korean War. He returned to Montgomery after service and joined his father at D.E. Jones Garage on Highland Avenue. He met and married his wife in March of 1957 and began their family. That same year, he founded Jones Tire Company, the first of many other businesses to come over the years. He enjoyed traveling and spending fun filled times with his friends and neighbors. Family was everything to him.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Daniel Erby Jones and Maude Bell Rogers Jones, and his sister, Juanita Maude Jones Somers. He is survived by his devoted wife of 68 years, Ann Blanton Jones, his two children, son, Robert Laslie Jones, Jr. and his wife Jennie, daughter Kimberly Ann Jones, his four grandchildren, Laura Ann Jones Spires and her husband David, Robert Laslie Jones III and his wife Kyle, Jonathan Caton Jones and his wife Sarah, McKenzie Allen Jones, and seven great grandchildren, David Jonathan Spires, Jr., Isabella Ann Spires, Robert Laslie Jones IV, Hampton Breece Jones, Hayes McRae Jones, Leal Elizabeth Jones, and Emma Virginia Jones as well as nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Pallbearers will be his son, Robert, grandsons,Laslie, Caton, and Z, grandson-in-law, David, and great grandson Jon David.
Memorials may be made to Thorington Road Baptist Church, 450 Ray Thorington Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36117.
A graveside service will be held at Greenwood Cemetary on June 4, 2025, at 10:00 AM.
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Thorington Road Baptist Church450 Ray Thorington Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36117
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