Obit: O.K. Allen, Jr., Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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>From the October 6, 1953 Winnfield News-American

Last Rites For O. K. Allen, Jr. Held Here Monday


Funeral services for Oscar K. Allen, Jr., 39 year old son of the late Governor
O. K. Allen were held here Monday at 3 p.m.  Mr. Allen died at his camp on
Saline Lake on October 3, after a short illness.

Mr. Allen was born May 9, 1915, in Winnfield, and has recently been a resident
of Shreveport.  He is survived by a son, Oscar K. Allen III of Shreveport, one
daughter, Amy Allen of Shreveport; one sister, Mrs. Joyce Love Stare of
Boston, Mass., one brother, Asa Benton Allen of Boston, Mass., and a host of
uncles, cousins, and other relatives in Winn Parish.

Officiating at the funeral at the First Baptist Church was the pastor, Dr. W.
L. Holcomn, with Harwell L. Allen speaking also.  Burial was in the Allen
Cemetery plot in Winnfield, under the direction of Hixson Funeral Home.  The
remains lay in state at the Hixon Chapel prior to the funeral.

Pallbearers were Earnest Seago, Frank Wright Grigsby, Robert P. Johnson,
Palmer Long, J. M. Breedlove, Kelly Peterson, Warren Allen, Harvey Broyles, I.
L. Bilbray, and Ira Green.

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