Extracted from The Richland Beacon-News (Richland, LA)
Thursday, October 2, 2003

CHARLOTTE L. ALLEN

Services for Charlotte Lucille Allen, 74, of Clear Lake were held Sept. 30, 2003 at Brown-Holley Funeral Chapel in Rayville with Bro. Jeff King and Bro. V.L. Dickson officiating.

Burial followed in Start Cemetery under the direction of Brown-Holley Funeral Home of Rayville.

Mrs. Allen passed away Sept. 28.

Mrs. Allen was a homemaker and a member of the Rayville First Assembly of God where she was the church secretary for 17 years. Mrs. Allen had been a Sunday school teacher at the church for many years. She was a member of the Women's Ministry and a past secretary.

Also she was the Commissioner In Charge of Elections, Ward 6, Precinct 1. Mrs. Allen was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Lillian Boykin; and a grandson, Jeremy Allen.

Survivors include her husband, Hulen Allen of Clear Lake; a daughter, Patti Ellis and husband, Randy, of Clear Lake; three sons, Kenneth M. Allen and wife, Patricia of Clear Lake, James Larry Allen and wife, Mari of Clear Lake, and Thomas E. Allen of Clear Lake; four sisters, Phyllis Haley, Patricia Grant, Doris Howe and Joan Keene; two brothers, James Robert Boykin and Richard Boykin; 13 grandchildren and four great grand-children.

Pallbearers were Randy Keith Ellis, James Herrington, Matthew Herrington, Brady Allen, Charles Ray Herrington and Jacob Anderson.