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Dorothy Edna (Mangus) Newton was born the eldest daughter of ten children to James and Martha (Ketner) Mangus near Shawnee, OK, on Aug. 21, 1935.

She was a lifelong resident of the Tecumseh area. She died in her home Jan. 24, 2021. Her first marriage to Otis F. Townsend Sr. gave her four child...