Lawrence F. Jones, the son of Fredric Walker and Carrie Alfreda Langley Jones, was born in Belvidere, Illinois, on May 15, 1899. The Jones family moved to Wisconsin Rapids in 1910, where Jones graduated from high school in 1918. He also graduated from Wood County Normal School in 1922, and received a degree in education in 1932 from the Central State College, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and did additional graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.
For several years Jones taught in the rural and state graded schools in Wisconsin, including seven years as boy's academic instructor at the Fond du Lac Vocational School. From 1935 to 1953, he was a city commissioner of Fond du Lac, this period being interrupted by his service in Germany in the Second World War. During the same time, he was also executive secretary of the Wisconsin Association of Cooperatives and publisher of the Ripon Press. Jones served as first vice-president of the Fond du Lac Democratic Party, party chairman for four years, and twice ran unsuccessfully for the state assembly. He was elected to the Fond du Lac Common Council, serving from 1973 to 1975. A member of the Governor's Study on Mass Transit, Jones was president and manager of the Fondy Area Bus Cooperative, a citizens' movement to provide bus service. Upon his retirement in 1973, the city assumed operation of the bus system. Prior to his death in June 1975, Jones was a member of many community and service organizations, such as the DeMolay Advisory Council. He was survived by his widow, Anna Russell Jones.
