Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1915 — WILLIAM TOWNSEND DIED OF INJURIES [ARTICLE]

WILLIAM TOWNSEND DIED OF INJURIES

Remington Believed Better, Suddenly Passed Away at Noon Sunday—Funeral Tuesday. / William Townsend, the Remington druggist, died at 12 o’clock Sunday noon at his home in that town. Death is believed due to apoplexy, which occurred either before a fall he sustained the Sunday before or which occurred as a sonsequence of his fall. Mr. Townsend’s building suffered - some damage' an the cyclone of the day -before and on Sunday morning he had gone to the second floor of the building and climbed a stepladder to examine the roof. He fell from the ladder to the floor, a distance of 12 or 14 feet. He suffered a fractured wrist, a cut on the back of the head, and severe bruises and for some time following his fall was unconscious. Last Monday he became better and apparently was getting along all right, although conscious only part of the time. The change for the worse came very suddenly and the announcement of his death was a great shock to all of his acquaintances. Mr. Townsend was about 60 years of age and had resided in Remington for about forty years. He was a good man and one of the foremost citizens of Remington. All of his old acquaintances who have moved away will regret to learn of his sudden death. He leaves a wife and two sons, Claude, the druggist at Remington, and Lowell, a music teacher in an Illinois college. The funeral will be held at Remington Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.