Cremation Society of Idaho
Carolyn C. Townsend
January 21, 1914 to June 7, 2014
Carol was born in Meridian, Idaho, to Union and Frances Hope Millspaugh. She was the youngest of eight children: five girls and three boys. Her early years were spent moving with the family to several places in southwest Idaho as her father looked for job opportunities. The family lived in Meridian, Homedale, Boise, on Shafer Creek, in Melmont and Nampa. She enjoyed riding the streetcars while living both on Pierce Park Lane and at another time near Midway on Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard. While living near Melmont, a community between Bowmont and Melba, her mother became ill and died soon after in 1928 when Carol was 14. She attended high school in Nampa while living with various families to earn her room and board as her father had infrequent jobs and no home as the Great Depression deepened. She graduated from Nampa high School in the class of 1932. Her great interests in school were arts and letters, and drama. During the fall between her junior and senior years, and again the next fall, after graduating from high school, she spent some time with a sister who taught school on Flint Creek in Owyhee County. There, she met Darley "Duke" Townsend, an Owyhee County native, born in Wagontown, not far down Jordan Creek from Silver City. Carol always said she was a "horse and buggy" girl and loved living in farming and ranching settings and here was a young cowboy, on a cattle ranch, and interested in her. They were married in Boise in August 1933. In 1934 they filed on a 640 acre homestead in the Owyhee Mountains and built a log cabin there. Carol used a "draw knife to skin each log" as her husband and his father and brothers constructed the cabin. They would spend a portion of each following summer living there and "proving up" as required by the Homestead Act. After many moves chasing job prospects during the Depression, the family lived near New Meadows during the first years of WWII. Duke was "frozen" on his job in 1941, while working as a logger for Boise-Payette Lumber Co. The couple and their children moved back to Owyhee County in November 1944 as soon as Duke was released from the war essential work of lumber production. The family then lived in Homedale where all of their children attended schools, until 1969, when they moved to Victory Road east of Nampa. Carol worked in a local packing shed as a sorter, as a waitress in Charlotte Kershner's café in Homedale, and ran a motor route for the Caldwell Tribune. Later she worked as a lead person in a Caldwell dry goods warehouse, as a Realtor for Century 21, for the Boise Senior Services, and as a Boise School District employee.
She was very involved in school activities in support of her kids. She was also an important factor in guiding many of her grandchildren's upbringing. Known for her sourdough hotcakes and mince pie, she never admitted to being a good cook. In fact, she said she always cooked on "high" until the food began to smoke. She loved to do crossword puzzles (until the last week of her life) and also wrote poetry. She traveled across the United States with family and later alone in a pickup camper from Idaho to Arizona and points in between. One of her great pleasures was visiting with family and friends.
She was preceded in death by husband Darley in 1973, her parents, siblings, grandchild Denise Gummersall, several nieces and nephews, and most all others of her generation. Well, she once said that her old friends keep leaving this world.
She is survived by her children: Darlene Townsend, Boise; Lee Townsend (Anita), Ocean Park, WA; Ralph David Townsend (Sue), McCall; and Jim Townsend, Boise. Grandchildren: Jeff Pline, Roni Schmidt, Jeri Iriondo, Steven Pline, Suzy Nixon, Suzi Lewis, Debbie Woodhouse, Frances Linderman, Mary Cohen, Arthur Wait, Jacqui Porter, Julie Claus and Darbi Townsend, many great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and a very few old friends.
The family would like to thank all of the fine folks at the Heritage Assisted Living Center in Boise where she spent her final years as well as the caring people at Encompass Home Health and Hospice.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Published in Idaho Statesman on June 20, 2014
Carolyn C. Townsend
January 21, 1914 to June 7, 2014
Carol was born in Meridian, Idaho, to Union and Frances Hope Millspaugh. She was the youngest of eight children: five girls and three boys. Her early years were spent moving with the family to several places in southwest Idaho as her father looked for job opportunities. The family lived in Meridian, Homedale, Boise, on Shafer Creek, in Melmont and Nampa. She enjoyed riding the streetcars while living both on Pierce Park Lane and at another time near Midway on Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard. While living near Melmont, a community between Bowmont and Melba, her mother became ill and died soon after in 1928 when Carol was 14. She attended high school in Nampa while living with various families to earn her room and board as her father had infrequent jobs and no home as the Great Depression deepened. She graduated from Nampa high School in the class of 1932. Her great interests in school were arts and letters, and drama. During the fall between her junior and senior years, and again the next fall, after graduating from high school, she spent some time with a sister who taught school on Flint Creek in Owyhee County. There, she met Darley "Duke" Townsend, an Owyhee County native, born in Wagontown, not far down Jordan Creek from Silver City. Carol always said she was a "horse and buggy" girl and loved living in farming and ranching settings and here was a young cowboy, on a cattle ranch, and interested in her. They were married in Boise in August 1933. In 1934 they filed on a 640 acre homestead in the Owyhee Mountains and built a log cabin there. Carol used a "draw knife to skin each log" as her husband and his father and brothers constructed the cabin. They would spend a portion of each following summer living there and "proving up" as required by the Homestead Act. After many moves chasing job prospects during the Depression, the family lived near New Meadows during the first years of WWII. Duke was "frozen" on his job in 1941, while working as a logger for Boise-Payette Lumber Co. The couple and their children moved back to Owyhee County in November 1944 as soon as Duke was released from the war essential work of lumber production. The family then lived in Homedale where all of their children attended schools, until 1969, when they moved to Victory Road east of Nampa. Carol worked in a local packing shed as a sorter, as a waitress in Charlotte Kershner's café in Homedale, and ran a motor route for the Caldwell Tribune. Later she worked as a lead person in a Caldwell dry goods warehouse, as a Realtor for Century 21, for the Boise Senior Services, and as a Boise School District employee.
She was very involved in school activities in support of her kids. She was also an important factor in guiding many of her grandchildren's upbringing. Known for her sourdough hotcakes and mince pie, she never admitted to being a good cook. In fact, she said she always cooked on "high" until the food began to smoke. She loved to do crossword puzzles (until the last week of her life) and also wrote poetry. She traveled across the United States with family and later alone in a pickup camper from Idaho to Arizona and points in between. One of her great pleasures was visiting with family and friends.
She was preceded in death by husband Darley in 1973, her parents, siblings, grandchild Denise Gummersall, several nieces and nephews, and most all others of her generation. Well, she once said that her old friends keep leaving this world.
She is survived by her children: Darlene Townsend, Boise; Lee Townsend (Anita), Ocean Park, WA; Ralph David Townsend (Sue), McCall; and Jim Townsend, Boise. Grandchildren: Jeff Pline, Roni Schmidt, Jeri Iriondo, Steven Pline, Suzy Nixon, Suzi Lewis, Debbie Woodhouse, Frances Linderman, Mary Cohen, Arthur Wait, Jacqui Porter, Julie Claus and Darbi Townsend, many great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and a very few old friends.
The family would like to thank all of the fine folks at the Heritage Assisted Living Center in Boise where she spent her final years as well as the caring people at Encompass Home Health and Hospice.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Published in Idaho Statesman on June 20, 2014
Cremation Society of Idaho
Carolyn C. Townsend
January 21, 1914 to June 7, 2014
Carol was born in Meridian, Idaho, to Union and Frances Hope Millspaugh. She was the youngest of eight children: five girls and three boys. Her early years were spent moving with the family to several places in southwest Idaho as her father looked for job opportunities. The family lived in Meridian, Homedale, Boise, on Shafer Creek, in Melmont and Nampa. She enjoyed riding the streetcars while living both on Pierce Park Lane and at another time near Midway on Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard. While living near Melmont, a community between Bowmont and Melba, her mother became ill and died soon after in 1928 when Carol was 14. She attended high school in Nampa while living with various families to earn her room and board as her father had infrequent jobs and no home as the Great Depression deepened. She graduated from Nampa high School in the class of 1932. Her great interests in school were arts and letters, and drama. During the fall between her junior and senior years, and again the next fall, after graduating from high school, she spent some time with a sister who taught school on Flint Creek in Owyhee County. There, she met Darley "Duke" Townsend, an Owyhee County native, born in Wagontown, not far down Jordan Creek from Silver City. Carol always said she was a "horse and buggy" girl and loved living in farming and ranching settings and here was a young cowboy, on a cattle ranch, and interested in her. They were married in Boise in August 1933. In 1934 they filed on a 640 acre homestead in the Owyhee Mountains and built a log cabin there. Carol used a "draw knife to skin each log" as her husband and his father and brothers constructed the cabin. They would spend a portion of each following summer living there and "proving up" as required by the Homestead Act. After many moves chasing job prospects during the Depression, the family lived near New Meadows during the first years of WWII. Duke was "frozen" on his job in 1941, while working as a logger for Boise-Payette Lumber Co. The couple and their children moved back to Owyhee County in November 1944 as soon as Duke was released from the war essential work of lumber production. The family then lived in Homedale where all of their children attended schools, until 1969, when they moved to Victory Road east of Nampa. Carol worked in a local packing shed as a sorter, as a waitress in Charlotte Kershner's café in Homedale, and ran a motor route for the Caldwell Tribune. Later she worked as a lead person in a Caldwell dry goods warehouse, as a Realtor for Century 21, for the Boise Senior Services, and as a Boise School District employee.
She was very involved in school activities in support of her kids. She was also an important factor in guiding many of her grandchildren's upbringing. Known for her sourdough hotcakes and mince pie, she never admitted to being a good cook. In fact, she said she always cooked on "high" until the food began to smoke. She loved to do crossword puzzles (until the last week of her life) and also wrote poetry. She traveled across the United States with family and later alone in a pickup camper from Idaho to Arizona and points in between. One of her great pleasures was visiting with family and friends.
She was preceded in death by husband Darley in 1973, her parents, siblings, grandchild Denise Gummersall, several nieces and nephews, and most all others of her generation. Well, she once said that her old friends keep leaving this world.
She is survived by her children: Darlene Townsend, Boise; Lee Townsend (Anita), Ocean Park, WA; Ralph David Townsend (Sue), McCall; and Jim Townsend, Boise. Grandchildren: Jeff Pline, Roni Schmidt, Jeri Iriondo, Steven Pline, Suzy Nixon, Suzi Lewis, Debbie Woodhouse, Frances Linderman, Mary Cohen, Arthur Wait, Jacqui Porter, Julie Claus and Darbi Townsend, many great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and a very few old friends.
The family would like to thank all of the fine folks at the Heritage Assisted Living Center in Boise where she spent her final years as well as the caring people at Encompass Home Health and Hospice.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Published in Idaho Statesman on June 20, 2014
Carolyn C. Townsend
January 21, 1914 to June 7, 2014
Carol was born in Meridian, Idaho, to Union and Frances Hope Millspaugh. She was the youngest of eight children: five girls and three boys. Her early years were spent moving with the family to several places in southwest Idaho as her father looked for job opportunities. The family lived in Meridian, Homedale, Boise, on Shafer Creek, in Melmont and Nampa. She enjoyed riding the streetcars while living both on Pierce Park Lane and at another time near Midway on Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard. While living near Melmont, a community between Bowmont and Melba, her mother became ill and died soon after in 1928 when Carol was 14. She attended high school in Nampa while living with various families to earn her room and board as her father had infrequent jobs and no home as the Great Depression deepened. She graduated from Nampa high School in the class of 1932. Her great interests in school were arts and letters, and drama. During the fall between her junior and senior years, and again the next fall, after graduating from high school, she spent some time with a sister who taught school on Flint Creek in Owyhee County. There, she met Darley "Duke" Townsend, an Owyhee County native, born in Wagontown, not far down Jordan Creek from Silver City. Carol always said she was a "horse and buggy" girl and loved living in farming and ranching settings and here was a young cowboy, on a cattle ranch, and interested in her. They were married in Boise in August 1933. In 1934 they filed on a 640 acre homestead in the Owyhee Mountains and built a log cabin there. Carol used a "draw knife to skin each log" as her husband and his father and brothers constructed the cabin. They would spend a portion of each following summer living there and "proving up" as required by the Homestead Act. After many moves chasing job prospects during the Depression, the family lived near New Meadows during the first years of WWII. Duke was "frozen" on his job in 1941, while working as a logger for Boise-Payette Lumber Co. The couple and their children moved back to Owyhee County in November 1944 as soon as Duke was released from the war essential work of lumber production. The family then lived in Homedale where all of their children attended schools, until 1969, when they moved to Victory Road east of Nampa. Carol worked in a local packing shed as a sorter, as a waitress in Charlotte Kershner's café in Homedale, and ran a motor route for the Caldwell Tribune. Later she worked as a lead person in a Caldwell dry goods warehouse, as a Realtor for Century 21, for the Boise Senior Services, and as a Boise School District employee.
She was very involved in school activities in support of her kids. She was also an important factor in guiding many of her grandchildren's upbringing. Known for her sourdough hotcakes and mince pie, she never admitted to being a good cook. In fact, she said she always cooked on "high" until the food began to smoke. She loved to do crossword puzzles (until the last week of her life) and also wrote poetry. She traveled across the United States with family and later alone in a pickup camper from Idaho to Arizona and points in between. One of her great pleasures was visiting with family and friends.
She was preceded in death by husband Darley in 1973, her parents, siblings, grandchild Denise Gummersall, several nieces and nephews, and most all others of her generation. Well, she once said that her old friends keep leaving this world.
She is survived by her children: Darlene Townsend, Boise; Lee Townsend (Anita), Ocean Park, WA; Ralph David Townsend (Sue), McCall; and Jim Townsend, Boise. Grandchildren: Jeff Pline, Roni Schmidt, Jeri Iriondo, Steven Pline, Suzy Nixon, Suzi Lewis, Debbie Woodhouse, Frances Linderman, Mary Cohen, Arthur Wait, Jacqui Porter, Julie Claus and Darbi Townsend, many great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and a very few old friends.
The family would like to thank all of the fine folks at the Heritage Assisted Living Center in Boise where she spent her final years as well as the caring people at Encompass Home Health and Hospice.
Private services will be held at a later date.
Published in Idaho Statesman on June 20, 2014
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