NAME: WILLARD COLEMAN TOWNSEND, AGE 60, OF DURANT AND FORMER LEHIGH RESIDENT.

BORN: NOVEMBER 15, 1940 AT LEHIGH, OKLAHOMA TO WILLARD PHARMER AND MARCELLA JEAN (MILLS) TOWNSEND. PASSED AWAY: MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2001 AT SCOTT & WHITE HOSPITAL IN TEMPLE, TEXAS. AGE: 60 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS.

EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM COALGATE HIGH SCHOOL IN 1958 AND ATTENDED SEMINOLE JUNIOR COLLEGE AND OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY. COLEMAN HAD A BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

MARRIED: PATRICIA ANN MCAUSLAND IN SHERMAN, TX.

OCCUPATION: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CHOCTAW NATION TRIBAL POLICE AND CHOCTAW NATION TRIBAL SECURITY. FORMER LIEUTENANT WITH THE SEMINOLE POLICE DEPARTMENT, CHIEF OF POLICE WITH THE WEWOKA POLICE DEPARTMENT, CHIEF OF POLICE WITH THE DURANT POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR OVER 3 YEARS AND WAS AN AGENT WITH THE OKLAHOMA STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: BAPTIST FAITH AND WAS A MASON WITH THE DURANT LODGE.

COLEMAN SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U.S. ARMY AND WAS A PARATROOPER WITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION.

SURVIVED BY

WIFE: PATRICIA ANN TOWNSEND OF THE HOME IN DURANT, OK.

CHILDREN: LORA ANN TOWNSEND OF DURANT, OK. TWEETY PROUGH OF CLANTON, AL. GINNA MARIE HILL AND HUSBAND DALE OF NINNEKAH, OK.

GRANDCHILDREN: JUSTIN COLEMAN TOWNSEND OF DURANT, OK. PRESTON DAKOTA PROUGH OF CLANTON, AL. COLTON DALE HILL OF NINNEKAH, OK. TRISTON LANE HILL OF NINNEKAH, OK. BRANDON LEE PROUGH OF DURANT, OK.

SISTER: VIRGINIA TOWNSEND OF COALGATE, OK.

SISTER-IN-LAW: MARY LAYTON AND HUSBAND BOB OF COALGATE, OK.

AUNTS: BEATRICE WOLFE AND HUSBAND WAYNE OF LEHIGH, OK. CHARLOTTE BRUNKHORST AND HUSBAND GARY OF IRVING, TX.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: PHARMER AND JEAN TOWNSEND.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2001 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: DR. JOHN O. LINTON BUILDING AT THE COALGATE HIGH SCHOOL.

INTERMENT: CENTRAHOMA CEMETERY ~ CENTRAHOMA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. HARRY BOYDSTUN. ASSISTING: REV. ROSS KIRVEN.

CASKETBEARERS: JIM WARD, DANNY JOHNSON, RICK ARNOLD, SPENCER MULLENS, JOHN BATES, JEFF GOOSTREE.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: MIKE BAILEY, RICK CLEM, ROY ROBINSON, MIKE RUSSELL, R. D. HENDRIX, EUGENE TAYLOR, KENNETH JOHNSON, ARRON HOMER, CHOCTAW NATION TRIBAL POLICE AND CHOCTAW NATION TRIBAL SECURITY OFFICERS.