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Lillian “Doris” Allen
May 24, 1932 - November 19, 2014

Funeral services for Lillian “Doris” Allen, 82, of Rayville, LA were held 10:00 AM, Saturday, November 22, 2014 at Brown-Holley Funeral Chapel, Rayville with Sis. Renita Hemphill and Sis. Sue Day officiating. Interment followed in the Start Cemetery, Start, LA.

Mrs. Doris was born May 24, 1932 in Start, LA and passed away Wednesday, November 19, 2014 in Rayville, LA after a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Doris is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Lillian Boykin; husbands, Clifford Allen and Charlie Howe; granddaughter, Selena Sparks; son-in-law, Buddy Woodward; and sisters, Charlotte Allen, Phyllis Haley, and Patricia Grant.

Survivors include her children, Dianne Groan and husband, Stanley of Start, Clifford “Butch” Allen and wife, Patricia of Houma, Gary Allen and wife, Debbie of Rayville, and Tammie Woodward of Start; 10-grandchildren and 24-great grandchildren; sister, Joan Ann Keene and husband, Luther of Calhoun; brothers, James Robert Boykin and wife, Wanda of Mineral Wells, TX; Richard Boykin of Fort Worth, TX; and a host of nieces, nephews, and other extended family.

Pallbearers were Kenny Allen, Larry Allen, Thomas Allen, George Evans, Mark Parker, and Ernest Shoffner.