Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Townsend, Fred J. March 27, 1956
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The Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, Wednesday, March 28, 1956
Fred J. Townsend, 76, of 431 Morse street, died Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. at the 
Ionia County Memorial hospital where he had been a patient since January 31.  
He had been an invalid since September 1948.  Born August 4, 1879, near 
Pewamo, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Townsend.  He was a resident of 
Ionia county most of his life.  Townsend was married to Bessie M. Helms of 
Pewamo May 28, 1905.  He was an employee of the Consumers Power Company for 
more than 20 years.  

Survivors include his wife, Bessie; eight children, Maxwell of Drayton Plains, 
Dale of Lyons, Leon Glen (L.G.) of Keego Harbor, Mrs. Elsie Fletcher of 
Drayton Plains, Mrs. Beth Roberts of Ionia, Mrs. Marie Stackman of Portland, 
Mrs. Sunshine Erridge of Lyons, and Mrs. Ruth Clerk of Lyons; one sister, Mrs. 
Ora Gee, of Lansing; 26 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Services will be Saturday March 31 at the Lyons Methodist church with the Rev. 
Robert Watt officiating.  Burial will be in the Muir cemetery.  The body will 
be at the Shaw-Rivett funeral home in Muir until the time of the service.

Subsequent Publication:  Monday, April 2, 1956:

Funeral services for Fred W. Townsend of Ionia, who died Tuesday at Ionia 
County Memorial hospital, were held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock form the 
Lyons Methodist church, with the Rev. Robert Watt officiating.  Burial was in 
Muir cemetery with arrangements by the Shaw-Rivett funeral home.  Bearers were 
Frank Townsend, Claude Townsend, Albert Townsend, Weston Townsend, Hector Gee 
and Everett Schlienz.  Judith Benedict was organist and Plyn Woodworth and 
Mrs. Vera Steadman were vocalists.

Attending from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Townsend, Delores 
Townsend, Linda Townsend of Drayton Plains, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Glen Townsend, 
Leon Townsend, Jr. of Keego Harbor; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hawes, Mrs. Jack Ewers, 
Robert Shilling, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fletcher, Ray Fletcher, Karen Fletcher of 
Pontiac.  Mr. and Mrs. Tony Fundero, Mrs. Gladys Pew, Fay Carrick of East 
Dearborn; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Schlienz, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Schlienz, Mr. and 
Mrs. Donald Schlienz, Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Rolf, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Mann, 
Donald Mann, Mrs. Max Bader, Elizabeth Bader, D. D. Holland, Bud Bissonette, 
Carl Gillespie, Mrs. Clare Sharp of Lansing.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Goodwin, Mrs. Theressa Goodwin of Jackson; Mr. and Mrs. 
Don Stackman, Dianna Stackman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Peckins of Portland; Mr. 
and Mrs. Arthur Gillespie, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bissel, Mr. and Mrs. Burt 
Benjamin and Tony Cook of Pewamo.  Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gee, Dick Gee of 
Holland; Mrs. Ora Gee, Mrs. J. D. Horrocks, Jack Horrocks of Dildine, Mrs. 
Orin Austin of Lake Odessa, Weston Townsend of Fenwick, Mr. and Mrs. Russell 
Schlienz of Greenville, and many other friends and relatives from Ionia, Lyons 
and Muir.


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