Billy Thomas Townsend
March 29, 2020
Date of Service: April 1, 2020
Interment Location: Garden of the Last Supper
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Rhoda Reeme and Ora Love Deadrick and two brothers, Richard Dale Townsend and Ernest Junior Townsend. Those left to cherish his memory include his wife of over fifty years, Reba Vance Townsend, of the home; two sons, Thomas Townsend and wife Kallie Gay, Elizabethton and David Townsend and wife Kim, Johnson City; a daughter, Rachel Townsend, Elizabethton; four grandchildren, Skye McLeod, Rowan Townsend, Lorelei “Rory” Townsend and Walter Townsend; four sisters, Mary A. Mosley, Elizabethton, Virginia Hughes, Elizabethton, Carolyn Shelley, Maryville, TN and Linda E. Killen, Johnson City and a brother-in-law, Ira Hale Vance, Gray, TN; a special niece, Janie Townsend, Elizabethton. Several other nieces and nephews also survive.
A private graveside service to honor the life of Mr. Billy Thomas Townsend will be conducted in Happy Valley Memorial Park. Honorary pallbearers will be Kirk Hayes, Jack Chambers, Jesse Eller, John Townsend, Gary Townsend, Kirk Hughes, Kim Hughes, Craig Shelley, Daniel Simmons, Israel Vance, Blake Wiseman and R. Steve Lyons. A celebration of life service will be conducted at a later date.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Memorial and Honor Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942 or the Shriner’s Hospital for Children, P. O. Box 5548, Kingsport, TN 37663.