Bryan and Marshall County, OK - Obit - Allen Kay French
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Source:   Madill Record or Durant Daily - Feb. 14, 1946
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Polio Claims Life of Allen Kay French

Madill Record or Durant Daily

Feb. 14, 1946

Allen Kay, 8 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Webb French of 
Madill, died in Parkland hospital in Dallas early today of infantile 
paralysis after an illness of more than four months.

The child had been kept in an iron lung at the hospital, since she 
became ill October 1,last year where her aliment was diagnosed as 
poliomyelitis.

At the same time her younger sister, Freda, and her cousin, Jimmie 
Small, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Small of Oklahoma Cit, were diagnosed 
as suffering from polio, but the latter two children have practically 
recovered.

Funeral services for Allen Kay will be held at the Methodist Church 
in Madill Friday afternoon at 2:30.

She was born in Durant. The family moved from here to Stillwater 
where Mr. French attended Oklahoma A. and M. College, later moved to 
Madill where Mr. French operates a ranch south of the city.

Mrs. French was formerly Miss Mary Byrd Taliaferro of Madill. Mr. French 
was born and reared in Durant. 

Note: Mary Byrd was a sister to George and Norborne Taliaferro of Madill, 
and a sister to LoRene Reirdon of Durant.

Submitted by Ella Byrd Reirdon Brown