Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  JEWEL MARIE (GILBERT) TOWNLEY

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JEWEL MARIE (GILBERT) TOWNLEY

OCNS - April 11, 2002 - Mrs. Jewel Marie (Gilbert) Townley, 87, former 
long time resident of Barnsdall, Oklahoma, died at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday, 
April 9, 2002, in the Bartlesville Care Center.

Jewel Marie Gilbert was born June 12, 1914, at Nauvoo, Alabama, the 
daughter of John David and Mary Bell (Plunkett) Gilbert.   She was reared 
and received her education at Nauvoo where, on January 6, 1933, she and 
Lucian Monroe Townley were married.   They established their first home at 
Bear Creek, Alabama in Marion County where they farmed until later moving 
to Deering, Missouri, where they continued their farming interests until 
they moved to Barnsdall.   Mr. Townley passed away January 13, 1999 and 
Mrs. Townley remained a resident of Barnsdall until she moved to 
Bartlesville about a year ago.   She was a member of the Free Will Baptist 
Church. 

Surviving are three sons; Virgil Lee Townley of Wynona, Oklahoma, Delbert 
Dee Townley and Edith of Bartlesville and William Hollis Townley of 
Barnsdall; two daughters, Mrs. Louise (Motley) Dunaway and Ira of Vinita, 
Oklahoma and Mrs. Mary Alice Downing and Levi of Barnsdall; nineteen 
grandchildren, forty great grandchildren and seventeen great-great 
grandchildren.   She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, Kenneth 
Earl Townley, a daughter, Mary Jane Townley, three sisters and two 
brothers.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, April 12, 2002we in 
the Barnsdall Free Will Baptist Church with Reverend Edgar Beaver 
officiating.   Committal prayers and interment will be directed in the 
Ethel Reese Cemetery, Barnsdall, by the Arnold Moore-Barnsdall Funeral 
Home.