Business, civic leader, Jack Shannon, buried

    Services were yesterday forJack Thomas Shannon, longtime farm and lumber company 
    executive and past president and king of the Memphis Cotton Carnival.
    Mr. Shannon died Thursday at Baptist Hospital East.  He was 61.
    Burial was in Memorial Park.  Swift Treadwell & Canale Funeral Directors had charge.
    Mr. Shannon was chairman of the board of J.T. Shannon Lumber Co. of Horn Lake, Miss., 
    and President of Shannon Farms of Hughes, Ark., and Shannon Brothers Enterprises of 
    Memphis.
    He was Cotton Carnival King in 1963 and its president in 1967.  He also was a memeber of
    the carnival board of directors, past chairman of the carnival selection committee, and 
    was a member of the executive committee of Memphis, a carnival grand krewe.
    Mr. Shannon also was a memeber of Future Memphis, the advisory committee of the Shelby 
    County Sheriff's Department and the board of The Hutchison School.  He was a member of 
    the Memphis Country Club and a former member of the 100 Club and the Memphis Hunt and 
    Polo Club.
    He attended Vanderbilt University and served in the Army Air Force during World War II.
    He leaves his wife, Amelia Russell Shannon; a daughter, Carroll Shannon Nenon; two sons,
    Jack T. Shannon Jr. and Richard Lee Shannon; a sister Anne Robinson; a brother, James E.
    Shannon, and three grandchildren, all of Memphis.
    The family requests that memorials be sent to chairty or to the Church of Holy 
    Communion.