Obituaries:  Dr. James I. Allen, Sabine Parish       A-450
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 26, 1997
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Dr. James I. Allen

  Funeral services for Dr. James I. Allen, 73, of Nacogdoches,
Texas, were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 23, 1997, at First
Baptist Church. The Rev. Dr. Allen Reed officiated. Burial was in
Sunset Memorial Park.

  Allen died Friday, March 21, at Memorial Hospital. Born May 12,
1923, in Winnsboro, to James Ira Abrams and Fannie Allen, he
attended schools in Louisiana, and graduated from Many High
School in 1939. He was a student in pre-med at Centenary College,
Shreveport. He served in the U.S. Army while in Medical School
from 1944 to 1946, and graduated with a MD degree from Louisiana
Stat University Medical School in New Orleans in 1947. Dr. Allen
spent one year in internship at Tri-State Hospital (now
Willis-Knighton Hospital) in Shreveport from 1947 to 1948.

  He married Patricia Pattison of Mansfield on May 7, 1948, and
began practicing medicine in June, 1948 in Merryville. He
practiced in Jasper, Texas, then in March 1949, he moved to
Nacogdoches, Texas.

  His children, Patricia Ann, James I. Jr., and Walter C. P. Allen
were all born in Nacogdoches, Texas. For two years, June 1953, to
June 1955, Allen served in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Biggs
AFB, where his fourth child, Mary Aileen was born. Dr. Allen was
head of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Ellsworth
AFB.

  In June 1955, he returned to Nacogdoches, and resumed his
practice specializing in family practice, with his office over
Swift Brothers and Smith Drug Store. In November 1959, Dr. Allen
moved his practice to 2516 North Street, where he went into
partnership with J. Frank Beall, MD, and T. J. Pennington, MD,
under the professional name of Medical and Surgical Group.

  Dr. Allen was a life member of the Texas Medical Association, a
member of Nacogdoches-San Augustine County Medical Society,
former member of Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital Staff (where he
had been a member since 1957), and was made a Fellow in 1972.

  A member of First Baptist Church, he was faithful in his Rotary
membership, as another rotary contributor to the betterment of
his community.

  He is survived by his wife; two sons, James I. Allen Jr., and
wife Mary Ellen of Atlanta, and Walter C. P. Allen of
Nacogdoches, Texas; one daughter, Patricia Ann Harris and husband
Robert Chesley Harris III of Lufkin, Texas; one sister, Viaud
Marcel of Helena, Montana; and four grandchildren, Emmett Allen
Pack; three nephews, James Larry Skinner of Many, Asa Allen
Skinner of Leesville, and Dr. Jesse Marcel of Helena, Montana.

  Dr. Allen was preceded in death by one daughter, and one
grandson, Mary Aileen Allen Angel, and Thomas P. Angel.

  Pallbearers were Richard Hull, Joe Max Green, D. N. Hull,
Charlie Mann, Dr. L. W. Snider, and Dr. Steward Barron. Honorary
pallbearers were Nacogdoches County Medical Society, Rowland
Vannoy, and Nacogdoches Rotary.

  Memorials may be made to Gruber Evangelistic Ministries, the
Nacogdoches Treatment Center, or First Baptist Church.