Morehouse County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....ALLEN, JOHN EDWARD October 10, 2008
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Golden Funeral Home - October 2008
JAMES E. ALLEN
(Died October 10, 2008) 

Funeral services for Reverend James E. Allen, age 91, of Bastrop, LA are 
scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at First Assembly of God with 
Rev. H. Maurice Lednicky, Rev. S. Michael Cheshier, and Rev. James Michael 
Cheshier officiating. Interment will follow in Christ Church Cemetery. 
Visitation will be held Sunday from 6-8 p.m. at Golden Funeral Home and Monday 
from 5-9 p.m. at First Assembly of God. Rev. Allen went into the presence of 
the Lord on Friday, October 10, 2008, with his loving family at his bedside. 

During almost 75 years in the ministry, he served as the pastor of Assemblies 
of God Churches in Wesson, AR, Hodge, LA, Bastrop, LA, for more than 25 years, 
and Sulpher, LA. He received his ministerial training from Southwestern Bible 
Institute (now Southwestern Assemblies of God University) where he was 
valedictorian and chosen by the faculty to deliver the Commencement address for 
his graduating class. After traveling as an Evangelist, he served as the first 
State Youth/Christian Education Director for the Assemblies of God in 
Louisiana. Rev. Allen left the pastorate in Bastrop in 1973 after having been 
elected as an executive officer of the Assemblies of God, serving as the State 
Secretary Treasurer/Home Missions Director for 10 years. Under his leadership 
numerous new churches were established across Louisiana. After returning to 
Bastrop, the City of Bastrop honored him by declaring "Rev. J.E. Allen Day" and 
presented him with a key to the city on November 19, 2000. Even in his later 
years, he continued to minister all across Louisiana and in Arkansas, and was a 
favorite speaker for meetings of Seniors. At the time of his death he was 
serving as Associate Pastor at Pioneer Assembly of God. Rev. Allen will be 
remembered as an energetic visionary who genuinely loved the ministry and the 
people he served. 

He is preceded in death by wife of nearly 50 years, Juanita Allen and 
granddaughter, Mischelle Lednicky. 

He is survived by his wife of eight months, Rev. Annie Farmer Allen; two 
daughters, Marcia Lednicky & husband Maurice of Bangkok, Thailand and Marigold 
Cheshier & husband Michael of Springfield, MO and Kenya, Africa; grandchildren, 
Melissa White & husband Adam of Springfield, MO and James Michael "Mikey" 
Cheshier and wife Shereen of Springfield, MO; great grandchildren, Michael 
White, Maurice White, Serenity Grace Cheshier; step-children, Patricia Lisenby 
& husband Conley of Dunn and Arthur Ray Farmer & wife Karen of Rayville; 12 
step-grandchildren; and 13 step-great grandchildren. 

Serving as pallbearers will be Bobby Goodwin, Ray Janway, Johnny Lee Moreland, 
Kenneth Knight,  Michael White, Maurice White, Adam White, and Tommy Janway.



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