Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


The Bryan - College Station Eagle 
April 1, 2005 

Rachel Mary Allen
May 27, 1913 — March 29, 2005

CENTERVILLE — Services for Rachel Mary Allen, 91, of Marquez are set for 2 p.m.
Saturday at Walters Funeral Home in Centerville.

Lenton Speer will officiate. Burial will be in Old Bowling Cemetery near
Marquez.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, with the family present from
6 to 8 p.m., and from 9 a.m. to the time of services Saturday at the funeral
home.

Mrs. Allen died Tuesday in Fairfield.

She was born near Marquez and lived most of her life on the Prather family home
place. She attended Sam Houston State Teachers College and received a
bachelor’s degree in 1937. Mrs. Allen was a member of the Work Projects
Administration Sewing Project in Leon County and worked in the office of the
Leon County Tax Assessor-Collector during World War II.

Mrs. Allen taught high school home economics and served as assistant county
superintendent from 1948 until the office closed in the late 1970s. She
received her master’s in education from Sam Houston in 1958. She was a member
of First Christian Church in Mexia and recently attended Church of Christ in
Marquez.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Forrest Allen.

Survivors include two sisters and a brother-in-law, Mattie Bea Medford of
Huntsville and Marquez and Eleanor and Lawrence Dube of Rosenberg; and numerous
nieces and nephews.