Background
Townsend, Kenneth Ross was born on October 31, 1927 in Holly Grove, Alabama, United States. Son of James Ernest and Mary H. (Jordan) Townsend.
Townsend, Kenneth Ross was born on October 31, 1927 in Holly Grove, Alabama, United States. Son of James Ernest and Mary H. (Jordan) Townsend.
AB, Birmingham South College, 1956; postgraduate, Union Theological Seminary, 1960-1963; Master of Divinity, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1964.
Pastor methodist churches, North Carolina and Virginia Confs., 1954-1963;
priest, Bath Priest Parish, Dinwiddie, Virginia, 1964-1969;
priest, St. Paul's Church, Vanceboro, North Carolina, 1969-1989;
retired, 1989. Lecturer philosophy Richard Bland College of College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1966-1968. Delegate to synod Province IV, 1973.
Member liturgical committee Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1971-1982, member prison commission, 1984. Occasional supply priest Olivet Church, Franconia, Virginia, since 1995.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1946. Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Delta Sigma Phi.
Married Irene Fogleman, March 18, 1951. Children; Marietta, Martha, Kenneth Ross, Elizabeth.
