Dorothy Lacey Hancock-Townsend

3/19/1936 — 7/19/2025

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Dorothy passed away Saturday, July 19, 2025. She was born March 19, 1936, in Orofino at Burns Hospital to Edgar W. and Marie (Comfort) Lacey of Peck. They moved to Woodland when she was nine months old. Dorothy attended the one-room school at Woodland through eighth grade. Then two years in Lewiston and graduated from Orofino. Dorothy married Leo Hancock July 1953 he passed away in 2001. She married Charles Townsend in March 2006 he passed away in 2013.

Dorothy held many different jobs and lived in many different places during her life time.

She is survived by her sons Bill (Pam) Hancock, Robert (May Ann) Hancock, Larry (Sarah) Hancock, fourteen grandchildren, two bonus grandsons, numerous great-grandchildren, and one great-great-granddaughter. She is survived by two brothers Arthur (Jackie) Lacey and Roy (Donna) Lacey, and one sister Martha Musner, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents Edgar and Marie Lacey. Sister and brother-in-law Leolee (Bill) Brandt, Ruth (Reese) Simlee, George Messnew and Jaquee Lacey. One brother Raymond Lacey, granddaughter Lacey Hancock, and husbands Leo Hancock and Charles Townsend.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Saturday, July 26, at Malcom’s Brower-Wann Funeral Home, 1711 18th St., Lewiston.

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