Obit of Allen, Royal G - Bryan County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Shelly Lynch  <leeshlynch@gmail.com>   10 Jun 2007
Return to Bryan County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm
=====================================================================
                        USGENWEB NOTICE
                 Copyright.  All rights reserved.
          http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
=====================================================================
::Fort Gibson National Cemetery--Fort Gibson OK

Published April 22, 2007 Muskogee Phoenix

Royal G. Allen

1918-2007

Funeral services for Royal G. (Al) Allen will be held at 11:30 a.m. 
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at First United Methodist Church with 
Reverend Diana Cox Crawford officiating.

Burial will be in Fort Gibson National Cemetery under the direction 
of Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home. Royal Allen was born January 7 1918 
in Caddo Oklahoma, son of Charles Jackson Allen and Cora Ella (Ward) 
Allen and died unexpectedly on April 18, 2007 at his home in 
Muskogee. He is preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Helen 
Allen, who died in June, 2004.

He was a decorated World War II veteran, having reached the rank of 
Staff Sergeant in the 1015th Signal Company. In the last two years 
of the war, he served as Chief Radio Operator in a mobile Radio unit 
in the South West Pacific Area, where he supported combat operations 
of the 5th Air Force in New Guinea and Luzon. Among numerous 
commendations, he was awarded the Philippine Liberation Ribbon and a 
Bronze Star.

In 1941 he married Helen Naomi Patterson, and in 1957 the Allen 
family moved to Muskogee. Royal was for many years the manager of 
the T.G.& Y. store in Lakeland Shopping Center. He was a member of 
First United Methodist’s Friendship Class for 40 years. He was 
active in the Optimist’s Club, the Muskogee Roundup Club. He was a 
proud member of the Choctaw Nation.

He is survived by three daughters; Royallynn Allen of Crestone, CO, 
Mary Ann Allen of Pascoag, RI and Lori Allen of Boston, MA, and by a 
brother, Charles Ray Allen, of Durant.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to First 
United Methodist Church in Muskogee.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Return to Bryan County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm