Greer County, OK - Obituaries:  Allen, Walter V., 1951

Wednesday, January 17, 2001



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Granite Enterprise 



Thursday, December 20, 1951 



Walter V. ALLEN, owner of the Allen Station and Grocery at Granite passed 

away Tuesday morning at his home here. He suffered a heart attack on 

November 16th and was a patient in the Southwest Baptist Hospital at Mangum 

for one week, however for the past several days he had been feeling pretty 

good. 

He suffered the fatal attack while still asleep and was discovered by his 

son, Lester ALLEN, who had been making his home with his father for several 

weeks. 

Walter V. Allen was born June 6, 1882 in Hickman county, Tennessee and died 

on December 18, 1951 at the age of 69 years, six months and 12 days. 

He came to Greer county in 1906 from Tennessee and has resided in and near 

Granite since that date. He bought the ALLEN Station and Grocery in 1945. 

He married Nancy Ann Litton on January 8, 1905 who proceded him in death on 

August 13, 1948. Together they had 6 children, all survive the father. 

They are: Mrs. J. B. PERRY and Mrs. Luther FRENCH, Granite; Mrs Leonard PRATT 

and Mrs. Lawrence GRIFFITH, both of Mangum; Lester ALLEN, Bakersfield, 

California and Mrs. Haskell BILBREY, Texhoma, Oklahoma. 

Funeral services are Thursday (today), December 20 at 2:30 p.m. with 

Bro. E. E. Mitchell, minister of the local church in charge, assisted by 

Bro. Hugh Vaughan. Interment will be in the City Cemetery under the 

direction of the Irwin Funeral Home. 



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