Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Townsend, Ed S. July 24, 1949
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The Ionia County News, Thursday, July 28, 1949
Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. from the LeValley Methodist 
Church for Ed S. Townsend, Ionia township farmer, following prayer services at 
his home.  Rev. William B. Hunting officiated in the services.

Townsend died Sunday as the result of a heart attack.  He was 84 years of age. 

Honorary pall bearers for the services were M. Clyde Stout and George H. 
Rudd.  Active bearers were Thomas I. Martin, Albert Hinds, Steven Kimball, 
Lewis Janes, John Detmers and Ora Weed.

Flower bearers were Mrs. William Weisgerber, Mrs. Arthur Rumbaugh, Mrs. John 
Detmers, Mrs. Ora Weed and Mrs. Harold Harwood.  

Interment was in the family lot in Tuttle Cemetery.  Funeral arrangements were 
handled by Boynton’s Funeral Home, of Ionia, and it was estimated that over 
300 relatives and friends were present for the services.  

Mr. Townsend, because of his interest in township politics, was a candidate 
for county office in the early 1930’s, and later sought nomination as Ionia 
County Representative and Probate Judge.  He attracted statewide attention 
about 1930 when he contested in court the then new state law controlling 
Bang’s disease among cattle.  He protested an order which condemned a cow in 
one of his herds and its subsequent slaughter.

Townsend has lived on the E. P. Kelsey farm south of the Ionia Country Club, 
since he purchased it in 1916.

He is survived by his wife, Sara Ida; one son, Ray Townsend, of Ionia township 
one daughter, Mrs. Charles Lange; four grandchildren  and one great-grandchild.



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