Franklin County MsArchives Obituaries.....Dessie L. Allen January 13 2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Allen Geoghegan http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00008.html#0001878 May 5, 2004, 11:42 pm Natchez Democrat - January 16, 2004 Dessie L. Allen March 17, 1934 - Jan. 13, 2004 OLDENBURG - Services for Dessie L. Allen, 69, of Roxie, who died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, at Promise Hospital in Ferriday, LA, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Higdon Community Church in Oldenburg with the Rev. James Jones officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery under the direction of Craft Funeral Home. Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Ms. Allen was born March 17, 1934, in Franklin County, the daughter of Nora Allen Sr. and Weota Blackmon Allen. She was a retired janitor with Franklin County Schools and a member of Pine Grove Baptist Church in Kirby and the Mother's Board. Ms. Allen was preceded in death by her parents, one sister and one daughter. Survivors include a son-in-law, Michael Devault Sr. of Fayette; three sisters, Lizzie Allen of Kirby, Lillie (Gene) Stampley of Fayette and Bessie (M.E.) Felton of Hamburg; three brothers, Nora Allen Jr., Jacob (Margaret) Allen and C.L. (Vera) Allen, all of Kirby; four aunts, Gladys Williams of Clayton, LA, Nellie Johnson of Brookhaven, Bessie Cockerham of Metarie, LA and Ella Elliot of New Orleans, LA; three grandchildren, Audrey, Aubrey and April Devault of Fayette; and a number of nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be other relatives and friends. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/msfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb