Obit: Fannie Allen Abrams, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the December 3, 1948 Winnfield News-American

Mrs. Abrams, 62, Local Man's Sister, Dies in Shreveport

Heart Attack At Home of Sister Fatal Saturday


Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday in Many for Mrs. Fannie Allen
Abrams, 62, of Leesville, sister of Congressman A. Leonard Allen and the
late Governor O. K. Allen, who died in Shreveport at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Mattie Allen Broyles, at 10:15 p.m. Saturday following a
heart attack.  Rites were conducted in the First Baptist Church and burial
was in the Many Cemetery.

Mrs. Abrams was visiting her sister when she was stricken.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Harvey Skinner of Many, and Mrs.
Jessie Marcel of Roswell, N. Mex., a son, Dr. James Allen Abrams, of
Merryville, La., two brothers, Congressman Allen, and Ira W. Allen of
Leesville, and a sister, Mrs. Mattie Broyles of Shreveport.

Pallbearers were Harvey Broyles, O. K. Allen, Jr., Richard Allen, Bryan
Allen, Dr. Joe Broyles, Dr. W. H. Broyles, Lyndon Allen, Ted Broyles, and
Asa Benton Allen.

(Submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA.)