December 9, 2004

Virginia Songer

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Virginia Townsend Songer, 89, of Chaffee, died Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 10, 1915, in Jonesboro, Ark., and had lived in Puxico, Mo. She married Gilbert Townsend who died in 1974. She married Mitt Songer who died in 1996...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Virginia Townsend Songer, 89, of Chaffee, died Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Oct. 10, 1915, in Jonesboro, Ark., and had lived in Puxico, Mo. She married Gilbert Townsend who died in 1974. She married Mitt Songer who died in 1996.

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She was a member of the General Baptist Church.

Survivors include a son, David Townsend of Chaffee; a sister, Maxine Cheeks of Jonesboro, Ark.; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. Friday until the funeral service at 1 p.m. at the Morgan-Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico, with the Rev. Ray Placher officiating. Burial will be in the Fagan Cemetery at Puxico.

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