Logan County KS Archives Obituaries.....ALLEN, Stella May (NYE) February 14, 1975 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cic. Stetter Timetraveler303@aol.com November 18, 2007, 11:22 am The Oakley Graphic The Oakley GRAPHIC, Oakley, Logan County, Kansas 27 February 1975 Stella May Allen Stella May NYE ALLEN, daughter of Charley William NYE and Mary Jane KERLIN NYE, was born April 9, 1892, near Elgin, Oregon, and died Feb. 14, 1975, at St. Thomas hospital, Colby, Kans., at the age of 82 years, 10 months and 5 days. During the summer of 1893, at the age of one year, she was brought by her parents to Kansas, a journey by covered wagon which required three months traveling time. The family settled on a farm in southeast Thomas county, near Oakley, living first in a sod house until a frame home could be constructed. Together with two sisters and two brothers she grew to womanhood in that community attending the Belle Prairie rural school and church. On April 11, 1910, she was married to Earl Laffett LANE. They lived at Salina and Iola, Kans., where their children, Lester Earl, Vern Arthur, Wilbur L., and Mabel May, were born, and later they resided at Wichita. She later returned to Thomas county and on Nov. 17, 1939, she was married to O. J. ALLEN. With his two children, Mildred and Dale, they made their home on a farm soutwest of Colby. After Mr. ALLEN's death, June 3, 1953, she remained on the farm for another year and since that time had made her home in Colby. During these years she made frequent trips to California to visit her three sons and their families, as well as other travels. She was a member of the Bethel Full Gospel church which she faithfully attended as long as her health permitted. She especially enjoyed her membership and activities in the Liberty Extension Homemakers Unit (EHU) and in the Willing Workers club. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, and infant daughter, Mabel May, her son Vern, and one sister, Emma WILSON. She is survived by two sons and three daughters-in-law, Lester and Irene LANE, South Gate, Calif., Wilbur and Veda LANE, Long Beach, Calif., and Edith LANE, presently of Colby; her stepchildren, Dale ALLEN and wife, Violet, Arvada, Colo., and Mildred GOKE and husband, Karl, Colby; six grandchildren, Lloyd, Larry, Steve, Richard and Alan LANE, and Karen LATHAM; seven great-grandchildren; 8 step grandchildren, 27 step-great grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, Ray NYE and Victor NYE, Oakley; one sister, Mrs. Pearl SIMMONS, Nampa, Idaho; one aunt, Mrs. Lydia HARRIS, Denver, Colo.; eight nieces and nephews and many other relatives and friends. Services were held Feb. 18 at Harrison Chapel, Colby, with the Rev. Lee METCALF officiating. Burial was in Beulah cemetery. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * source: surname/obituary file Oakley Public Library, Oakley, Kansas File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/logan/obits/a/allen1969ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb