WINNFIELD -- Mrs. Geneva G. Townsend, 90, of Winnfield died Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. in Willis Knighton Hospital in Shreveport.
Survivors include three sons, Elmo Townsend of Winnfield, John Townsend of Keithville and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two daughters, Mrs. Amy Wilks of Lobington, N.M., and Mrs. Ann L. Jones of Bossier City; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Gates of Dodson and Mrs. Maude Hall and Mrs. Johnnie Prestridge, both of Baton Rouge; two brothers, Hilton Gorham of Joyce and C. E. Gorham of Dry Prong; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Sanders of Dodson and Mrs. G. P. Eagles of Joyce; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Services were to be held at 2 p.m. today in the Southern Funeral Home chapel here with Rev. Willie James officiating. Burial will be in the Gorham Town Cemetery in Joyce.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, July 8, 1976
Survivors include three sons, Elmo Townsend of Winnfield, John Townsend of Keithville and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two daughters, Mrs. Amy Wilks of Lobington, N.M., and Mrs. Ann L. Jones of Bossier City; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Gates of Dodson and Mrs. Maude Hall and Mrs. Johnnie Prestridge, both of Baton Rouge; two brothers, Hilton Gorham of Joyce and C. E. Gorham of Dry Prong; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Sanders of Dodson and Mrs. G. P. Eagles of Joyce; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Services were to be held at 2 p.m. today in the Southern Funeral Home chapel here with Rev. Willie James officiating. Burial will be in the Gorham Town Cemetery in Joyce.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, July 8, 1976
WINNFIELD -- Mrs. Geneva G. Townsend, 90, of Winnfield died Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. in Willis Knighton Hospital in Shreveport.
Survivors include three sons, Elmo Townsend of Winnfield, John Townsend of Keithville and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two daughters, Mrs. Amy Wilks of Lobington, N.M., and Mrs. Ann L. Jones of Bossier City; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Gates of Dodson and Mrs. Maude Hall and Mrs. Johnnie Prestridge, both of Baton Rouge; two brothers, Hilton Gorham of Joyce and C. E. Gorham of Dry Prong; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Sanders of Dodson and Mrs. G. P. Eagles of Joyce; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Services were to be held at 2 p.m. today in the Southern Funeral Home chapel here with Rev. Willie James officiating. Burial will be in the Gorham Town Cemetery in Joyce.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, July 8, 1976
Survivors include three sons, Elmo Townsend of Winnfield, John Townsend of Keithville and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two daughters, Mrs. Amy Wilks of Lobington, N.M., and Mrs. Ann L. Jones of Bossier City; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Gates of Dodson and Mrs. Maude Hall and Mrs. Johnnie Prestridge, both of Baton Rouge; two brothers, Hilton Gorham of Joyce and C. E. Gorham of Dry Prong; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Sanders of Dodson and Mrs. G. P. Eagles of Joyce; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Services were to be held at 2 p.m. today in the Southern Funeral Home chapel here with Rev. Willie James officiating. Burial will be in the Gorham Town Cemetery in Joyce.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, July 8, 1976
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She married Robert E. Townsend on January 4, 1906.
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