Graveside service for William Douglas Townsend will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, August 3, 2021, at

Easthaven Cemetery. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at Riverwood.

Mr. Townsend, 90, of Brookhaven, passed from this life July 29, 2021. He was born March 15, 1931.

He served his country in the United States Army and was employed with the Offshore Oil Industry.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Marcus Leon Townsend and Marie Townsend; wife, Mary Alice Townsend;

brothers, M.L. Townsend and James “Sonny” Townsend; and sisters, Eva Lee Evans and Donis Adams.

He is survived by his children, Phillip Townsend and wife, Yen, Daniel Townsend and wife, Jennifer, and Shirley Brewer; sisters,

Linda Rice and Van Pearl Ward; five grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild as

well as other loving family members and friends.