Emanuel County GaArchives Obituaries.....Townsend, Buford Randolph "Dick"  May 6, 1992
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The Paris News 5-7-1992
                           Dick Townsend
 Dick Townsend, 70, Route 1 Blossom, died Wednesday, May 6, at St. Joseph's 
Hospital.
 Services will be held at 11am Friday, May 8, at Gene Roden's Sons Funeral 
Home Chapel with the Rev. Lorenzo Johns officiating. Burial will be in 
Evergreen Cemetery.
 The family will receive friends from 7-8pm Thursday at the funeral home.
 Mr. Townsend was born Oct. 20, 1921 in Swainsboro, Ga., a son of James Murphy 
Townsend and Georgia Curl Townsend. He served in the Army and was at Pear 
Harbor during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. He also served in the 
Mandates Island Campaign and the Central Pacific Campaign. He was a member of 
the Paris Rlks Lodge and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was retired from J. 
C. Penney and attended Immanuel Baptist Church. He was a member of the North 
Mesquite Baptist Church. He married Kathleen Ford on May 16, 1985 in Rockwall.
 Surviving are his wife; two sons and daughters-in-law, Richard Lynn and Karen 
Townsend of Forney and James Kelly and Debbie Townsend of Garland; a stepson, 
Phillip Randall Cockburn of Blossom; a daughter-in-law, Priscilla Thompson of 
Paris, and two cousins, Roger and Margaret Martin of Swainsboro, and four 
grandchildren.

Additional Comments:
Dick's first wife was Tommie Joe Jackson Townsend.

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