Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  Elsie Rachel Palmateer Allen

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The following excerpts were taken from page 8 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - November 10, 1999

Obituaries

ALLEN
Graveside services are scheduled for November 12, at Woodbine
Cemetery for former resident Elsie Rachel Palmateer Allen of
Weatherford, Texas.  Allen, 93, died on November 4, in 
Weatherford.  She was born on December 12, 1905, in 
Creston, Nebraska.  She and her husband, Henry Crowel Allen,
met in Artesia.  He preceded her in death in 1978.  She was
a member of First Methodist Church in Artesia.  She is survived
by sons William Henry Allen of Weatherford, Jay Palmer Allen
of Glandale, Ariz., and Howard Kim Allen of Vestavia Hills,
Alabama; sister Twyla Belle Stout of Taft, Calif.; six grand-
children; and eight great-grandchildren.