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George W. Townsend - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, March 25, 1982

Services for George W. Townsend, 79, were at 2 p.m. at Crothers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. 
Crawford Williams officiating. Burial was in Silver Cross Cemetery.

Mr. Townsend died March 18 at Madison Parish Hospital in Tallulah after a short illness.

He was s a native of Lincoln, County, Miss. and had lived in Tallulah for the past 50 years. He was a 
retired employee of the City of Tallulah and a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, George Allen Townsend of Houston and Jackie Townsend of Tallulah; a sister, 
Mrs. Marlin Byrd of Natchez, Miss., and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Jack Lott Sr., Bill Sanders, James Still, Pete King, Roy Erwin, Richard Everett, 
Harold Odgen and Malone Sanders.