Abilene
Reporter-News
September 11, 2011
Marie
Webb Townsend
Marie Webb Townsend, 97, passed away in Haskell, Texas,
September 7, 2011. Services will be held at the First Baptist Church at 2:00
p.m. Monday, September 12, 2011, in Rule, Texas with Rev. Russell Stanley
officiating. Burial will be at the Rule
Cemetery under the
direction of Smith Family Funeral Homes. A visitation is schedule for Sunday,
September 11, 2011, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. at Smith Family Funeral Home in Rule.
Marie was born August 14, 1914, in Haskell
County to Thomas Jasper
(TJ) Webb, Sr. and Lilley James. She married A.V. "Snooks"
Townsend in Rule in 1932, and lived in Rule all her life. Marie was a
homemaker and she also worked in administration for the Nursing Home in
Haskell. She was involved with the First
Baptist Church
in Rule with Sunday school and cooking meals for the church.
Marie is survived by one grandson, Tim Townsend and his wife Patricia of
Clinton, OK; one brother-in-law, Doyle McKennon of
Rule; numerous cousins and many nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Snooks;
her parents; one son, Travis Townsend; three brothers, T.J. Webb Jr., Emmett
Webb, and Ray Webb; five sisters, Anna Lee McKennon,
Minnie Fay Kincaid, Lois Carroll, Gladys Dykes, and Edith Landry.
(Obituary Submitted by Steve Munday)
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