They called him "Carwash," and for good reason.
Jimmy Levon Jones "could get your car, and it would be like it was brand new when he finished cleaning it," his sister, Chiquita Williams of Greenwood, said.
Jones, 25, of 1010 Lindsey Ave. died in Saturday's two-car collision on U.S. 49 near Rising Sun that also took the life of Cornel Brooks, a 40-year-old Viking Range Corp. employee.
Jones worked for Heartland Catfish on the line that speed-packs frozen fish. He had just started out there, his mother, Dorothy J. Jones of Greenwood, said.
Mainly over the years, he washed cars for a living.
She and Williams said they object to reports gathered by police that say Jones was driving south in the northbound lane of the highway when the accident happened.
Williams said she heard the opposite from people gathered at Greenwood Leflore Hospital after the accident. "My brother did not leave the lane he was driving in. And I know personally that he did not drive fast."
Her brother's car, a white 2000 Honda Accord, erupted in flames after the collision.
Brooks was driving a red 1997 Chrysler Sebring convertible.
Jones' mother said he was at a carwash Saturday evening, and she was keeping his 4-month-old son, Ja'korrion. She discovered that she didn't have a bottle for the baby, so Jones went to the baby's mother's house in Rising Sun to get one.
He was returning to Greenwood when he died, she said.
Jones also had three daughters, she said. He "worked hard to make ends meet."
Williams said, "He was a sweet, loving guy. He was friendly to everybody. He helped everybody. He was a hard worker. He tried to take care of his family, and he always stayed around his family."
