John Townsend Jr.
2024
John S. Townsend, Jr. On Sunday, September 15, 2024, John S. Townsend, Jr. passed peacefully at his home in Moses Lake, Washington. With him were his long-time companion and members of his family. John was born in 1930 in Jordan Valley, Oregon, when his parents were living and working near Silver City, Idaho. John was the oldest of John and Sybil Townsend's five children. After John's birth, the Townsends farmed near Tuttle, Idaho, but lost the farm when a windstorm destroyed their crop. In 1938, the family moved to Silver City. John's father worked in the mine and his mother was the sole teacher at the school. The family bought a cow and it was John's responsibility to milk it...