Vivian Maurice (Hendon) Towles (1918 - 2010)

Born 23 Mar 1918 in Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA

Wife of Lake Hays Towles — married 15 May 1937 in Isola, Humphreys, Mississippi, United States

Died 13 Apr 2010 at age 92 in Indianola, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States

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Biography

Vivian Maurice Hendon was born on 23 Mar 1918 in Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA.

She died on 13 Apr 2010 in Indianola, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA (Age at Death: 92).

When she was 19, she married Lake Hays Towles,son of William Hugh Towles and Cora Lillian Miller, on 15 May 1937 in Isola, Humphreys, Mississippi, USA (from her obituary).

Vivian Maurice Hendon lived in Rural, Sunflower, Mississippi in 1935. She lived in Sunflower, Mississippi, USA on 01 Apr 1940 (Age: 22; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife). Race: (White)

She was buried in Indianola, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA (Indianola City Cemetery). ^[1]

Lake Hays Towles and Vivian Maurice Hendon had the following children:

1. Darleen Towles was born about 1938 in Mississippi, USA.
2. Jamie Ruth Towles was born about 1939 in Mississippi, USA.
3. Faye Towles was born about 1940.

Obituary for Vivian Maurice Towles

Vivian Maurice Hendon Towles, 92, passed away Tuesday, April 13, 2010, at her home in Sunflower, MS.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m., Thursday, April 15, 2010, at the Sunflower Baptist Church in Sunflower, MS. Burial will follow in Indianola Cemetery under the direction of Ray Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m., Thursday, at the church.

Maurice was born on March 23, 1918, in Choctaw County to John J. Hendon and Ada Ellis Hendon. She married Lake Hayes Towles in Isola, MS, on May 15, 1937. She and Lake made their home together in Sunflower County for over 62 years, where she was a homemaker and he farmed until his retirement.

She is preceded in death by her husband, on October 18, 2003; her parents, 3 brothers; and one sister.

Survivors include three daughters, Faye Gentry and her husband, Jerry, Ruth Stroud and her husband, Tom, Darleen Chandler and her husband, Lester; 6 grandchildren, Mechelle Wilson and her husband Mitch, Kristi Clark and her husband, Michael, Kathi Dunnam and her husband, Joe, Stephen Stroud and his wife, Melody, Gary Chandler and his wife, Phyllis, Leslie Waggoner and her husband, Jeff; and eleven great grandchildren, Laura Ashley, Laken, and Erin Wilson, Gentry and Quincee Clark, Mary and Anna Stroud, Asa, Quinn, and Carson Chandler, and Luke Waggoner. Pallbearers will be Mitch Wilson, Michael Clark, Joe Dunnam, Jeff Waggoner, Gary Chandler, and Stephen Stroud.

Memorials may be made to Sunflower Baptist Church P.O. Box 175 Sunflower, MS 38778.

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115571915/vivian-maurice-towles: accessed 25 May 2023), memorial page for Vivian Maurice Hendon Towles (23 Mar 1918–13 Apr 2010), Find a Grave Memorial ID 115571915, citing Indianola City Cemetery, Indianola, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by E W Hendon (contributor 46851658).

• Source: Ancestry.com 1940 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627;