LAFAYETTE -- Elmo M. Townsend, 72, of Winnfield died at 8 a.m. Tuesday in Lafayette General Hospital after a long illness.
He was a native of Joyce, a member of the Church of Christ and a cabinet maker.
Survivors include his wife, Lessie Townsend of Winnfield; two sons, Charles Townsend of Brookings, S.D., and Jim Townsend of Arlington, Texas; one daughter, Eleanor Hawkins of Lafayette; two brothers, Hardy Townsend and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two sisters, Jean Wilks of Lovington, N.M., and Ann Jones of Shreveport; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services were to be at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern, Winnfield, with the Revs. Willie James and Don Anyon officiating. Burial was to be in Garden of Memories.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, October 25, 1979
He was a native of Joyce, a member of the Church of Christ and a cabinet maker.
Survivors include his wife, Lessie Townsend of Winnfield; two sons, Charles Townsend of Brookings, S.D., and Jim Townsend of Arlington, Texas; one daughter, Eleanor Hawkins of Lafayette; two brothers, Hardy Townsend and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two sisters, Jean Wilks of Lovington, N.M., and Ann Jones of Shreveport; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services were to be at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern, Winnfield, with the Revs. Willie James and Don Anyon officiating. Burial was to be in Garden of Memories.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, October 25, 1979
LAFAYETTE -- Elmo M. Townsend, 72, of Winnfield died at 8 a.m. Tuesday in Lafayette General Hospital after a long illness.
He was a native of Joyce, a member of the Church of Christ and a cabinet maker.
Survivors include his wife, Lessie Townsend of Winnfield; two sons, Charles Townsend of Brookings, S.D., and Jim Townsend of Arlington, Texas; one daughter, Eleanor Hawkins of Lafayette; two brothers, Hardy Townsend and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two sisters, Jean Wilks of Lovington, N.M., and Ann Jones of Shreveport; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services were to be at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern, Winnfield, with the Revs. Willie James and Don Anyon officiating. Burial was to be in Garden of Memories.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, October 25, 1979
He was a native of Joyce, a member of the Church of Christ and a cabinet maker.
Survivors include his wife, Lessie Townsend of Winnfield; two sons, Charles Townsend of Brookings, S.D., and Jim Townsend of Arlington, Texas; one daughter, Eleanor Hawkins of Lafayette; two brothers, Hardy Townsend and Stanley Townsend of Shreveport; two sisters, Jean Wilks of Lovington, N.M., and Ann Jones of Shreveport; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Services were to be at 2 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern, Winnfield, with the Revs. Willie James and Don Anyon officiating. Burial was to be in Garden of Memories.
Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (LA), Thursday, October 25, 1979
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