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August 1975 Charles Wesley Townsend Funeral services for Charles Wesley Townsend, 70, of Rush Springs was to be held at 2 p.m. today in the Rush Springs Methodist Church with Rev. Franklin Simmons, pastor, officiating. Townsend died at his home Sunday. He was born September 2, 1904, at Catomas, Ark. He was married to Miss Jocie Ellen Sharp in New Hope, Ark., on October 12, 1929 and had lived in Rush Springs for the past 31 years. He was a member of the Methodist church and a retired carpenter. Survivors include his wife, Jocie, of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Charlene Caveny of Rush Springs; two sons, James of Rush Springs and Bill of Honolulu, Hawaii, six grandchildren and one great grandchild; one brother Granville of Hope, Ark.; one sister, Mrs. Alman Bendey of Cullen, La. Interment will be in the Rush Springs Cemetery under direction of Calloway-Smith Funeral Home. |
- Jocie Ellen [Sharp] 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 August 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. |
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