Eva Delsie Lewis Allen

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Funeral services for Eva Delsie Lewis Allen will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church in Hammon with Rev. Bart Montgomery and Rev. Mike McDougan officiating. Burial will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County under the direction of Martin Funeral Home.

Mrs. Allen was born October 13, 1898 in Dry Fork, Missouri and died Wednesday at the age of 92.

She attended school at Gladden, Missouri and spent her early life in the area.

She carried the mail by horseback and also taught school there.

She was married to James B. Allen on March 24, 1920 at Salem, Missouri.

They came to Blair, where they owned and operated a cafe for several years. Mr. Allen's occupation in pipeline construction caused them to live in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. In 1929 they moved to Pie Flat where they lived until moving to Hammon in the early 1960's where she had lived since.

She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church and Eastern Star.

Survivors include three daughters, Wanda L. Stalcup and her husband Jack of Hammon; Sue Flick and her husband Oscar Ray of Hammon; and LaVerne Walton and her husband Jack of Elk City; one daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fern Allen of Chickasha; one sister-in-law, Kathleen Crook of Lakewood, California; eight grandchildren, nineteen great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.

Her husband James preceded her in death on September 3, 1983. She was also preceded in death by one son, James L., and one granddaughter, Connie Sue Flick, five brothers and two sisters.