Jesse Albert Allen

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Jesse Albert Allen was born January 17, 1915 in Beeville, Texas to Granville and Emma Bast Allen and passed away October 7, 1994 at the age of 79.

When he was two years of age, the Allen family moved from Texas to a farm just north of Elk City. Jesse attended Herring School and began working for the Herring Ranch.

He was married to Rosa Pinkston and they began farming some eight miles SW of Hammon. Rosa passed away some three years later.

Jesse and their son, Leroy moved in with Jesse's mother on the home place until he was married to Lucille Miller on December, 1939 at the Baptist Church Parsonage. Two years later they purchased the place where they now reside. To this union was born a daughter, Carolyn Kay.

Survivors include two children, Leroy Allen of Cheyenne and Carolyn Kay McClure and her husband Bill, of Florence, Alabama; five grandchildren, Gary and Sondra Allen of Cheyenne; Mike and Trisha Allen of Moore, Oklahoma; Keith and Catherine Allen of Panhandle, Texas and Lors and Billy Morrow of Florence, Alabama; ten great grandchildren, Tifaney and Kayla Allen, Blake and Jesse Blane Allen, Aaron, Nicole and Albert Cole Allen, Jessica and Jennifer Morrow and Luke Smith; one sister, Murl Gwartney and her husband Ted of Hammon; and four sisters-in-law, Mrs. Vonnie Allen of Elk City; Mrs. Annie Allen of Hammon; Mrs. Letha Johns of Lincoln, Arkansas and Nell Howe and her husband Bill of Clinton, Oklahoma.

Services were held at Martins Funeral Home Chapel, October 11, 1994 at 2:00 p.m.

Burial at Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

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