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Allen, Alma Susan Bell

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Alma Susan Bell Allen Obituary
Born:  March 4, 1855
	Riverside, California

Died:  May 28, 1939
	Belfry, Montana

			ELDERLY MATRON DIES AT BELFRY
		         Mrs. Allen Had Been Resident of Area 39 Years

	Belfry, May 29, (Special) – Mrs. John  F. Allen (Alma Susan Bell 
Allen), a resident of the Clark Fork Valley for the last 39 years 
died Saturday of complications due to her advanced age.  She was 83 
years old.  Mrs. Allen Came to Montana in 1880 and homesteaded in the 
western part of the state and later moved to this community.  She was 
born in Riverside, California and lived a number of years in Salt 
Lake City, Utah, where the three oldest children were born.

	Funeral services were conducted by Elder George Flamm of Billings 
from the Church of  the latter-day Saints at 2 o’clock Sunday 
afternoon.  Mrs. Orville Brower of Red Lodge and Mrs. Arthur Howard, 
accompanied at the piano by Dorthy Alwin and Faye and Eva Moore sang.

	The pallbearers were, E. T. Fuson, Guy Walters, Quince Chance, Ralph 
Fouse, James Winsor and Willard Vines.

	Mrs. Allen is survived by four sons, Claud, Oliver of White Sulphur 
Springs, Zadok of Clyde Park and Grant and Elgin of Belfry and by two 
daughters, Mrs. Henry Goldsmith (Rachel Alma) of Forest Grove, Oregon 
and Mrs. Leo Caldwell (Eva) of Belfry and 11 grandchildren and 16 
great-grandchildren.

	Interment was in the Chance cemetery and the Oicull(?) Funeral Home 
of Red Lodge was in charge of the arrangements.