Florence Townsend

Petersburgh – Florence Townsend, 92, passed away on Friday, August 30, at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, VT. She had resided on Green Road in Petersburgh, NY.
Born on March 27, 1921, in Cambridge, NY, Florence was the daughter of the late Wesley and Fannie (Burch) Sherman. She graduated from Walter A. Wood High School in Hoosick Falls, NY, in 1939. Florence was a homemaker all of her life. She enjoyed gardening and sewing. She was well known for her flower gardens.
Survivors include her daughters, Sally Webster, Peggy Morin, Joyce Strait and Judy LaFond, all of Hoosick Falls, Jeanette Chaffee and Nancy Coulter, both of Pownal, VT, and Molly LaBonte of North Petersburgh, NY, her son, Malcolm Townsend of Petersburgh, twenty-eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren as well as nieces and nephews. She is pre-deceased by three brothers, Malcolm, Duane and Clarence Burch.
Services will be private. Arrangements are under the care of the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street in Hoosick Falls.