Extracted from The Hope Star (Hope, AR)
Wednesday, September 26, 1973

ALLEN ERSKINE, SR.

Funeral services for Allen B. Erskine, Sr., of Prescott, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Prescott First Baptist Church with the Rev. Gene Stacks officiating. Burial was in DeAnne cemetery under the direction of Cornish Mortuary.

Mr. Erskine died Monday in a Nevada County hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Bertha; two sons, Allen Jr., of Prescott, and Jems of Pine Bluff; six daughters, Mrs. Iona Slankard and Mrs. Inez Whatley, both of El Dorado, Mrs. Margie Murphy of Auburn, Ill., Mrs. Blondale Kerns of Crystal City, Mo., Mrs. Bobby Hesterly of Little Rock, and Mrs. Betty Clark of Cleveland, Miss.; a brother, Andrew F. Erskine of Junction, Tex.; 21 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.