Northampton County NcArchives Obituaries.....Allen, David Lonzo 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net June 12, 2014, 8:12 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 09-12-1957, SECT. I, P. 7 DAVID LONZO ALLEN Funeral services for David L. Allen, 40, who died early Thursday morning, September 5, in a Norfolk hospital after a long illness, were conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the H.M. Purviance Memorial Chapel, Boykins, by Rev. Thomas Caulkins, pastor of the Branchville Baptist Church. Mr. Allen was the son of Mrs. Mattie Bryant Allen of Suffolk and the late Lonnie Allen. A native of Severn, N.C., he had lived in Portsmouth for the past 18 months. He was employed at the Ford Assembly Plant, Norfolk, and was a veteran of World War II. Besides his mother he is survived by a daughter, Miss Betty Louise Allen, and a son, David L. Allen, Jr., both of Emporia; five brothers, Edward Allen of Norfolk, John Eldridge Allen of Boykins, Horace J. Allen of Branchville, and Carroll Allen and Vernon Allen, both of Suffolk; five sisters, Mrs. Edward Gray of Newsoms, Mrs. Cleo Spence of Branchville, Mrs. Inez Gay of Portsmouth, and Mrs. Virginia Lassiter and Mrs. Frances Winslow, both of Suffolk. Burial was in the Severn Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Jewel Couch, LaVern Warner, Newman Milteer, Grady Flythe, Kenneth Allen and G.T. Draper. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/northampton/obits/a/allen1686nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb