Extracted from The Longview News-Journal (Longview, TX)
Friday, October 28, 1988

Louis D. Allen

HENDERSON -- Services for Louis D. Allen, 67, of Henderson will be 10 a.m. today at Bryan Funeral Home with the Rev. J.W. Griffith officiating.

Burial will be in Laneville Cemetery.

Mr. Allen died Wednesday night in a Shreveport, La., hospital following a lengthy illness.

He was born Jan. 11, 1921, in Rusk County, where he lived most of his life. He was a Baptist and retired chief warrant officer of the Army, serving in World War II.

Survivors include his wife, Bessie Sweeny; aunts, Faye Abbey of El Paso and Lela Stubblefield of Houston; and uncles, Marshall Barker of Laneville and Earl Barker of Walla Walla, Wash.