This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#222589) Clyde E. Townsley <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=222589> AUTHOR: David L. Skipto DATE: 2/21/2009 at 17:24:32 Surnames: TOWNSLEY,DAILEY,CHANCE,PALMER,CAMPBELL,DICKEY,MILLER Clyde E. Townsley, 66, retired farmer, died at 4:40 p.m. Thursday at the Grand hotel where he had been making his home. He had been in failing health for an extended period. The son of Oscar and Ava Mae Michael Townsley, he was born in Muscatine County on March 26, 1883, spending his entire live here. He married Alvina May Dailey on March 26, 1909, in Garmett, Kansas. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. May Townsley, of Muscatine, five sons, Edwin of Bettendorf; Leonard of St. Paul, Minn; Sgt Ward Townsley of Ft. Riley, Kansas; Roger of Muscatine and Donald of San Francisco, Calif; five daughters, Mrs. William Chance and Mrs. Thomas Palmer both of Washington, Iowa; Mrs. Frances Campbell of Muscatine; Mrs. George Dickey of Letts and Mrs. Ira Miller of New Boston, Ill. Twenty-four grandchildren also surive. He was preceded in death by his parents, five daughters, who died in infancy, three sisters and two brothers. The body is at the Geo. M. Wittich Funeral home and will remain there for rites at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. J. Arthur Eveland, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren Church will be in charge. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery near Cranston.