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Surname: TOWNSEND, GUYER
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From the New Castle newspaper:
FUNERAL FOR CORPORAL TOWNSEND
TO BE HELD HERE TUESDAY
Funeral services for Cpl. Lewis Edward Townsend, age 20, U. S. Marine Corps,
who died Tuesday in the U. S. Naval hospital at San Diego, Calif., will
be held here on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Friends church. Cpl.
Townsend was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Townsend, 721 S. Main St., who
were notified on Tuesday of this week that their son had died from peritonitis
resulting from acute appendicitis.
The body, with a marine escort, will arrive in New Castle Sunday evening
and is being directed to the Main and Sons funeral home from where it will
be removed to the home of the parents on Monday morning.
Friends may call at the home after noon on Monday until 11
o'clock Tuesday morning, when the body will be taken to the
Friends church to lie in state from 12 o'clock noon until the hour of the
funeral at 2 o'clock.
The Rev. Melvyn Thompson, pastor of the Christian church,
and the Rev. Jesse Stanfield, pastor of the Friends church will officiate
at the funeral services.
Burial will be in South Mound cemetery.
Cpl. Townsend, a graduate of the New Castle high school with
the class of 1942, entered the marine corps in April 1943 and had been
stationed at the Miramar Marine Avaition depot at San Diego until he became
ill.