Jonathan J Foley III, a businessman from Atlanta, died of heart failure Friday at the Nashville home of his mother, Harriet Foley.

A private memorial service will be held at St. George’s Episcopal Church.

Mr. Foley graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy and Mercer University, where he was president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

He attended graduate school at the University of Tennessee, Nashville, studying business law and finance. Mr. Foley worked here for his father’s law firm, Foley and Weiss, and Third National Mortgage company before moving to Atlanta.

He was the founder and president of American National Financial Inc., in Atlanta.

In addition to his mother, survivors include his son Jonathan (Jay) Foley IV and Mitchell Foley, and a sister, Betty Wentworth. He was preceded in death by an infant son, Owen Christopher Foley, and his father J. J. Foley Jr.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Foundation or Montgomery Bell Academy.

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