Mary Frances Townsend

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Mary Frances Townsend, age 88, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, Nov. 12, 2018, at the Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott. She was born Jan. 10, 1930, in Fort Scott, the daughter of Dewey E. McFadden and Virginia Crick McFadden. She graduated from the Fort Scott High School with the Class of 1947. She married Howard Eugene Townsend in 1950, at Blytheville, Ark. Mary graduated from the Mercy School of Nursing and became a registered nurse. She was employed by both Mercy Hospital and Newman Young Clinic and retired in 1991. She was a longtime member of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and later St. Francis Anglican Church. She enjoyed traveling and genealogy and especially working in her yard and tending her flowers.

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