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   Allen Matthew Ellison
   SAYRE, Okla. - Allen Matthew "Matt'' Ellison, 87, died Wednesday, May
   14, 1997.
   
   Services will be at 10 a.m. today in Sayre First Assembly of God
   Church with Jim Banks and Damon Akins officiating. Burial will be in
   Delhi Cemetery by Rose Chapel Funeral Service.
   
   Mr. Ellison was born in the Spring Creek community south of Sayre. He
   was raised in the Spring Creek area and went to school there before
   graduating from Delhi. He then began farming.
   
   He married Gladnie Towry. She died in 1943. He later married Mary Lee
   Bonnifield. They operated the 283 Gin and Country Store before he
   enlisted in the Navy. He served with the Seabees during World War II.
   
   After being discharged he returned to western Oklahoma and opened a
   laundry business in Sayre. He moved to Washington in 1954 to farm.
   After his wife, Mary, died, he returned to Sayre and worked for the
   police department and the county. He attended the Assembly of God
   Church.
   
   Mr. Ellison married Luedeen Henson in 1964 at Sayre.
   
   Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Nadine Holland of Lawton; a
   son, Gary Ellison of Sayre; a brother, Elmo Ellison of Shamrock,
   Texas; seven grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and eight
   greatgreat-grandchildren.