SAMMIE C. ALLEN
1889-1954
WELL KNOWN MAN PASSES FRIDAY
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Services held Sunday
For SAMMIE C. ALLEN
Sammie Calloway Allen, 65, a resident of this city for the past 13 years,
died at his home on Stafford Street Friday, February 5, 1954 following an
illness of two years. Death attributed to a brain tumor.
Born January 15, 1889 at Arthurmabel, KY. he was the son of Simon and
Lorina Joseph Allen.
He was a member of the First Methodist Church. He was an oil and gas
promoter in Eastern Kentucky prior to his illness.
Surviving are his wife, Virginia Ditty Allen and two daughters, Barbara
and Linda, both of this city. Other survivors include three sons,
Theodore Allen, Garrison, KY. Sammie Allen Jr., city, Woodrow Allen,
Garden City, Michigan, two daughters, Phinetta Pickins, Garden City,
Michigan and Rhena Jane Swinney, Greenville, KY., all children by a
former marriage.
Also surviving are two brothers, Sy Allen, Royalton, KY. and Byrd Allen,
Parma, Mich., four sisters Oda Rowe, Arthurmabel, KY., Cassie Waddle,
Kenton, Ohio., and Susan Howard, Argylite, KY.,
Active pallbearers were Mike Kocio, Fred White, Elmer Lyons, M.D. Bailey,
Bill Bailey, Oscar Williams Jr., Carl Leslie, Jess Boyd and Gelain
Baldridge.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Men's Bible Class of the First
Methodist Church.
Funeral Services were held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the First Methodist
Church, Rev. W. F. Pettus officiating.
Burial was made in the Preston Cemetery under the direction of the
Preston Funeral Home.
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
WEDNESDAY
FEB.10 1954
NOTE: Deathdate figured & entered into this obit from the
date of publication.
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