Obituaries:  Mrs. Elizabeth Garland Allen, Sabine Parish       A-450
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 10, 1997
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 


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Mrs. Elizabeth Garland Allen

  Mrs. Elizabeth Garland Allen, 81, of Lufkin, Texas died Monday, Dec. 1 in a Lufkin
hospital.

  Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3 in the Gipson Funeral Home
Chapel with the Rev. Denise Lightle officiating. Graveside services followed at 4 p.m.
in the Converse Cemetery with Edward Burnett officiated.

  Mrs. Allen was born Sept. 24, 1916 in Minden.

  Mrs. Allen was a retired school teacher. She had formerly taught at the Converse High
School for 25 years, and had also taught at the Noble High School for 10 years. Mrs.
Allen was a graduate of Minden High School and of Northwestern State University. She
was a member of the Converse Methodist Church. Formerly a longtime resident of Converse,
Mrs. Allen had lived in Lufkin for over 10 years.

  Survivors include two sons, and one daughter-in-law, William G. and Elizabeth A. Allen
of Elkhart, Ind., and Eric Anthony Allen of Phoenix, Ariz.; one daughter, Mary Elizabeth
Kling of Phoenix, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one sister,
Catherine Cochran of Lufkin; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives. Mrs.
Allen was preceded in death by her husband, William Travis Allen, on March 19, 1977.

  Pallbearers were William Gregory Allen, Curtis Spivey, Bill Stovall, Martin Cochran,
B. F. Cochran, Jr., Linwood McGaughey and Mike Brechiesen.

  Gipson Funeral Home Lufkin, TX