Ionia-Barry County MI Archives Obituaries.....Townsend, Kathryn 1978 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Ransom mransom311@gmail.com August 25, 2014, 1:47 pm The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Friday, December 29, 1978 Mrs. Kathryn Townsend, 97, of 128 W. St., Woodland died Thursday morning at Provincial House, Hastings where she had been a patient for eight years. She was born November 23, 1881 in Portland, Ind., daughter of Lewis and Susannah Blocher Oaks. She attended school in Portland, Ind. She married Otto Townsend September 20, 1909 in Woodland who preceded her in death September 14, 1961. Mrs. Townsend was a member of Coats Grove United Brethren church. Surviving are three sons, Garnett Townsend of Kalamazoo; Ralph Townsend of Woodland; Franklin Townsend of Alto; twelve grandchildren; 26 great grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Pheobe Byers of Hastings. Funeral services will be at the Pickens-Koops Funeral Chapel in Lake Odessa, Saturday at 2 p.m. Pastor Brent Zumbrum will officiate. Burial will be in Woodland Memorial Park. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/t/townsend27281nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb