Northampton County NcArchives Obituaries.....Allen, Mattie Bryant 1968 ************************************************ 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 December 9, 2012, 8:33 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 05-14-1968, P. 6 MATTIE BRYANT ALLEN NEWSOMS – A funeral service for Mrs. Mattie Bryant Allen was conducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in McDowell Funeral Home, Boykins, b y the Rev. Ben B. Ussery of Boykins Baptist Church. Burial was in Severn, N.C. Cemetery. Pallbearers were Clinton Grizzard, Ellis Bryant, Grady Flythe, Cleophas Spence Jr., David Allen and Ralph Daniels. Mrs. Allen, 71, died Tuesday in Portsmouth nursing home after a long illness. A native of Northampton County, N.C. , she was the widow of Lonnie Allen and a daughter of Johnny and Mrs. Martha Jones Bryant. She formerly lived in Suffolk. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Spence of Branchville, Mrs. Decie Gary of Newsoms, and Mrs. Inez Gay and Mrs. Frances Winslow of Suffolk; five sons, John E. Allen of Boykins, Horace Allen of Williamsburg, Carroll Allen of Suffolk, Bernard Allwn of Newsoms and Edward Allen of Portsmouth; a brother, Johnny L. Bryant of Pendelton, N.C., a sister, Mrs. Emma Butler of Seaboard, N.C.; 25 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/northampton/obits/a/allen3055gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb