© JUANITA PEARL TOWNSEND
1918 - 1999
Juanita Pearl Ritz Townsend, 80, died Saturday in Oklahoma City.
Mrs. Townsend was born March 9, 1918, in Okeene to Benjamin Harrison and Rosa Cook Ritz.
She married Delmer Townsend on August 23, 1947, in Kansas.
She worked at the Chandler Senior Citizen Center and with Project Heart for many years.
Survivors include her son, Wallace Townsend, Norman; daughter, Marjorie Curtis, Oklahoma City; five brothers, Charles Ritz, Howard, Kansas; Chester Ritz, Okeene; Lewis Ritz, Osage City, Kansas; Lester Ritz, Yukon; Gene Ritz, Guthrie; two sisters, Nancy Wilder and Gloria O'Conner, both of Oklahoma City; five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Delmer Townsend in 1984.
Services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel, Chandler, with the Rev. Bo Gibbs officiating.
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