Emanuel County GaArchives Obituaries.....Townsend, Tommie Joe Jackson January 27, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: William J. (Jim) Carroll williamcarrollj@bellsouth.net April 29, 2012, 3:00 pm The Paris News 1-29-2003 Tommie Joe Townsend Tommie Joe Townsend, 76, of Paris, died Monday, Jan. 27, 3003, in Rockwell Nursing Center. Funeral services are set for 2pm Thursday, Jan. 30, in Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Randy Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery under the direction of Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 7:30pm Wednesday, Jan 29, at the funeral home. She was born May 24, 1926, in Atlas, the daughter of Lee Roy and Thelma Ballard Jackson. She was employed with Southwestern Bell foe 20 years before attending and graduating from East Texas State Teachers College. She worked for many years as a teacher for the Dallas Independent School District. Survivors include her sons, James Kelly Townsend of Rowlett and Rick Lynn Townsend of Forney; three sisters, Donna Sharake of Houston, Dorothy Bankhead of Paris, and Fay Woods of Fort Worth; two brothers, Hubert Jackson of Fort Worth and Bill Jackson of Midland; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and several nieces, nephews, and friends. Additional Comments: Her husband was Buford Randolph "Dick" Townsend. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/emanuel/obits/t/townsend2600nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb