Miss Lou Allison

© Westville Record, Westville, OK
August 27, 1943
Submitted by: Wanda Elliott

Funeral services for Miss Lou ALLISON, 57 years old, widely known maiden lady, and a resident of this community for the past 22 years, died at her home Sunday morning at 5 o'clock after a three year illness, was conducted from the Roberts Funeral Chapel, Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with the Rev. J.C. MORRIS, retired Methodist minister in charge, assisted by the Rev. Sanford WYLIE, pastor of the local Methodist church. Burial was in the Westville cemetery.

Miss ALLISON was born in the community east of Fayetteville, March 13, 1886.
She came with the family from Prairie Grove, Ark., to Westville in 1920 and had lived here since, where she and her sister, Miss Myrtle ALLISON had managed and operated a dairy. She was converted at the age of 17.

Survivors include the mother, Mrs. C.R. ALLISON, of the home; five brothers, Fred ALLISON, postmaster of Westville, Bill ALLISON, rural mail carrier, Westville, Abe ALLISON, Stilwell, John ALLISON, Kansas City, and Russell ALLISON, Tyler, Texas; three sisters, Miss Myrtle ALLISON of the home, Mrs. Ruth ALBERTY, Westville, Mrs. E.L. BROWN, Sulphur, Okla.; and a number of nieces and nephews.