Obit of Allison, Daisy Marie Sappenfield (a425) - Washington County, Oklahoma

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Daisy Marie Sappenfield Allison

BOISE CITY, Okla. - Daisy Marie Sappenfield Allison, 90, a former resident 
of Amarillo, died Saturday, May 8, 1999.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church, Boise City, 
with Johnie Knight and John Henley officiating. Burial will be in Kenton 
Cemetery, Kenton, Okla., by Cimarron Mortuary.

Mrs. Allison was born near Dewey, Okla., and spent her childhood in 
Springfield, Colo., where she graduated from high school in 1928. In 1943, 
she moved from the Kenton, Okla., area to Boise City, where she was a 
Sunday school teacher, a choir member and superintendent of Vacation Bible 
School at the First Baptist Church. She was also a member of the Boise 
City Music Club.

After living for several years in Sherman, Okla., she moved to Amarillo, 
where she published several books of poetry and her autobiography. She 
ministered in various nursing homes and was a member of Bell Avenue Church 
of Christ, Panhandle Pen Women, Federated Women's Club, MacDowell Music 
Club, Philharmonic Music Club and Thrifty Dozen Sewing Club.

She married Ora Ottis Sappenfield in 1930. He died in 1959. She was also 
preceded in death by a daughter and a grandchild, both in infancy. In 
1962, she married George N. Allison and in 1997, they moved to Cimarron 
Nursing Home.

Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Ora Marie Hanes of the 
Keyes, Okla. area, Donna Ottinger of Boise City and Beverly Harvey of La 
Junta, Colo.; a stepdaughter, Virginia Roksandich of Amarillo; nine 
grandchildren; a stepgrandchild; 19 great-grandchildren; and a great-
great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials be to High Plains Children's Home in 
Amarillo, or to Kenton Cemetery. Memorials may be left with the funeral 
home.

Amarillo Globe News 10 May 1999
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