GRANT L. TOWNSEND SR.

POCAHONTAS -- Grant Loron Townsend Sr., 74, formerly of Pocahontas, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 1995, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau.

He was born June 28, 1921, in Badger, S.D., son of Edward L. and Byrde Thompson Townsend.

Townsend had been a machinist and assembler with Barry Wehmiller. He was a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include four sons, Grant Townsend Jr. of Bucyrus, Kan., Allen Townsend of High Ridge, David Townsend of Barnhart, Bernard Townsend of St. Louis; two daughters, Cynthia Buehler of St. Charles, Arlene Bolin of Festus; two brothers, Wilfred Eighmy of Bruce, S.D., Ned Townsend of Mitchell, S.D.; two sisters, Rose Nelson of Brooten, Minn., Beulah Severson of Bruce; 27 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a daughter.

Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville from 4-9 p.m. today, and Friday after 6:30 a.m.

Funeral service will be at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Friday, with the Rev. Albert Nyland officiating. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery at Mehlville.