Santa Clara County CA Archives Obituaries.....Allen, Leon Lewis June 28, 1976
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San Jose Mercury News, June 30, 1976, pg. 123)
"L.L. Allen Dies; Retired Agnew Postmaster"
  Los Gatos - Funeral services will be held Thursday for Leon L. Allen, retired
postmaster of Agnew, who died in San Jose Monday of a stroke.  He was 94.  
  Allen was a native of New York and fought in both the Spanish American War and
World War I.  He once rode with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders.  
  Allen, before his appointment as Agnew postmaster post by Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1939, worked as chief cook at Agnews State Hospital.  In his
earlier years he was a barber in Sacramento and regularly clipped then
California Gov. James Rolph's hair.
  He was a member of The American Legion Memory Post No. 399, Veterans of World
War I Barracks 170 and the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.
  Allen resided in Los Gatos at 206 Thomas Drive and is survived by his son, Sam
Simmons of Los Gatos.
  Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Lima Family-Erickson
Memorial Chapel.  Burial will be at Oak Hill Memorial Park." (San Jose Mercury
News, June 30, 1976, pg. 123)


Additional Comments:
Seeking information on his descendants, for genealogical purposes.  I can share
information about his birth family.

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