Eugene "Gene" Brown Townsend, 94, passed away at Baptist Health Madisonville on Monday, May 24, 2021.

He was born on June 8, 1926 in Poseyville, IN to the late Anna Brown Townsend and Roscoe C. Townsend. Gene attended the University of Evansville. He served as a WWII navy signalman and data programmer when computers were the size of a room and used punch cards. He was a UK fan, a Kentucky Colonel, quoted Chaucer, loved fishing, flower gardens, singing and piano. Gene and Vicki, his wife of seventy-three years, moved to sunny Florida after he retired from York as a warehouse manager. He moved back to Kentucky in 2019 to be near their daughter, Jeanne Knapp.

In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife, Vicki Townsend; daughter, Jeanne Knapp who both preceded him in 2020; granddaughter, Carole Isaacs; and his sister, Jewelee Kazynski.

Survivors include his sons, Eugene (Sharon) Townsend, Jr, of Deatsville, AL and Donald "Don" Townsend of Los Alamitos, CA; son-in-law, Jim Knapp of Dawson Springs, KY; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.