Images from "Labat: A Creole Legacy"

Below are some of the images from the fabric collage. Valena C. Jones was an educator and a contemporary of Celestine's older sister Inez. Ms. Jones married Bishop R.E. Jones, founder of Gulfside Methodist Assembly near Waveland, Mississippi. Several schools and churches in the MS Gulf Coast and New Orleans areas are named after her.



Valena C. Jones