Obit of Townsend, Jocie Ellen - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Gene Phillips 31 Jul 2005 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK Townsend, Jocie Ellen Sharp (1906 - 1999) Obituary from The Marlow Review (Marlow, OK), Thursday, July 15, 1999. Jocie Ellen Townsend Longtime area resident Jocie Ellen Townsend of Rush Springs died in Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha Sunday, July 11, 1999. She was 92. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Wednesday, July 14, at the Southern Baptist Church, with the Rev. Alvin McConnell officiating and the Rev. Elmer Whitehead assisting. Burial was in the Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of the Callaway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Chapel. She was born to J. H. and Martha (Tate) Sharp on March 4, 1907, in New Hope, Ark. She attended school in Arkansas. She had lived in the Marlow- Rush Springs area 56 years. She was a housewife and a member of the Free Will Baptist Church in New Hope, Ark. On Oct. 12, 1929, she and C. W. Townsend married in New Hope. He died on Aug. He died on Aug. 31, 1975. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Charlene and Fred Caveny of Rush Springs; two sons and daughters-in-law, James and Jan Townsend and Bill and Doris Townsend, all of Rush Springs; five grandsons, Larry Caveny and his wife Karen, Nolan Caveny and hiw wife Linda, Lynn Caveny and his wife Adrian, Mike Townsend, and Larry Townsend; a granddaughter, Michelle Winters and her husband Les; 13 great-grandchildren; and six great-great- grandchildren. Serving as pallbearers were Rusty Young, Rick Young, Clif Werhan, Junior Hale, Wayne Moore, and Ed Caveny. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html