Frances (Elliott)
Townsend
Collins Powell writes:
Mrs.
Frances (Elliott) Townsend had her 100th
Birthday Party at the Miami Seniors
Center in September 2008.
She was
born and raised in Picher, and graduated
from PHS in the class of 1925. She may
be the oldest graduate of PHS.
She
married Paul Townsend in Cardin
where they lived and raised three
children, Mary Alta, David and Dick.
She
remembers the Picher Depot Train Station
posted and shown in 1917 very well. She
lived a block north of the Picher Depot
in 1917 when she was 8 years old. The
Depot was located across from where the
Miners Museum was located.
She says
it was a upscale Depot. The
Townsend family were my neighbors from
1940 thru 1952.
I might add that Mrs. Townsend will be 101 September 17th and lives alone in an apartment at the Nine Tribes where she prepares her meals and does her laundry and cleans her unit. |
Thank You, Collins