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| Townsend, Frances Cornett 204852 |
| Birth: 04/14/1912 Death: 11/03/1994 Marriage: 10/12/1942 |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (21-18-03) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Sun., Nov. 6, 1994, p. 12B: 'Frances Townsend, 82, 2301 Simpson, Paris, died at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 [sic] 3, 1994, at St. Joseph's Hospital & Health Center. Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home will conduct services at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ray Starnes and the Rev. Jim Keith officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The body will lie at the church from 1 p.m. until service time. The family will be at the Townsend residence. Mrs. Townsend was born April 14, 1912, in Temple, a daughter of James and Mattie Askew Cornett. She attended schools in Paris and Paris Junior College. She married Dr. Courtney M. Townsend Oct. 12, 1942. He died Aug. 30, 1994. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, the United Methodist Women, Texas Medical Association Auxiliary, Lamar County Medical Society Auxiliary, Cosmos Club, Tejas Garden Club, and Mary Emma Bible Study Club. Surviving are three sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. Courtney M. Townsend and wife Mary of Galveston, Severn Townsend and wife Jane of Dallas and Lambeth Townsend and wife Nancy of Austin; two granddaughters, Frances Townsend and Sidney Townsend, both of Austin; three nieces, Mary Ann Stephens Gordon of Batesville, AR, Catherine Stephens Mooney of Sparta, TN and Frances Stephens Owens of Tampa, FL; a nephew, John Stephens of Springdale, AR; and numerous cousins. If desired, memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church. Serving as pallbearers will be G.I. Hodges, Robert Howard Snowden Jr., Hampton Hodges, Tom Wells, George Hyde and Philip Cecil.' |