Thelma Mae Townsend

Thelma Mae Townsend (daughter of Floyd Ambous Townsend and Rosa Bell Slaughter) was born on October 5, 1917 in Durham County, North Carolina.  She died on July 1, 2012 in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina.  She married John Allen Smith (son of John Jefferson Smith and Narcissa Franks) on September 4, 1936 in Beaufort County, North Carolina.  He was born on November 2, 1912 in North Carolina.  He died on September 30, 1973 in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina. 

Thelma Mae Townsend and John Allen Smith were buried in Holly Hill Cemetery in Vanceboro, Craven, North Carolina.   

Child of Thelma Mae Townsend and John Allen Smith  

1.  John Wesley Smith was born on September 18, 1943.

2.  Floyd Allen Smith

3.  Bobby Eugene Smith

Sources:

1920 Census: Orange County, North Carolina

1930 Census: Craven County, North Carolina

Marriage Record - John Allen Smith and Thelma Mae Townsend

Death Record - John Allen Smith

Find A Grave - Thelma Mae Townsend Smith

Find A Grave - John Allen Smith

Obituary of Thelma Mae Townsend Smith - Sun Journal - July 3, 2012

VANCEBORO - Mrs. Thelma Mae Townsend Smith, 94, went to be with the Lord peacefully on Sunday, July 1, 2012, at Two Rivers Health Care in New Bern.
The funeral service will be conducted on Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Holly Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she was a member. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Mrs. Smith, a native of Durham County, had been in the Vanceboro Community all her life.
She was married to the Rev. John Allen Smith and was a devoted minister's wife. They traveled spreading the gospel through God's message and music.
In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by her two sons, Floyd Allen Smith and John Wesley Smith and two brothers.
She is survived by son, Rev. Bobby E. Smith and wife, Evelyn, of Benson; daughter-in-laws, Sally Jane Smith of Vanceboro and Sharon Smith of Augusta, Ga.; grandchildren, Bobby Jr., Cindy, Sheila, Kim, Renee, Regina, Gregory, and Allen; 14 great-grandchildren; two great great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews and uncle, Buyrl Slaughter of Vanceboro. The family will receive friends Thursday from 1-2:30 p.m. at Holly Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Memorials may be made to Holly Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church Building Fund, 1080 Piney Neck Road, Vanceboro, NC 28586.
Online condolences at www.wilkersonfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory.

Obituary of Rufus T. Townsend - Sun Journal - July 22, 2008

Obituary of John Wes Smith