Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Friday, October 19, 1990

Otis Allen
retired truck driver

CANTON -- Otis Allen, 74, a retired truck driver, died of heart failure Wednesday at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Services are 2 p.m. today at Breeland Funeral Home Chapel in Canton with burial in Canton Cemetery.

Mr. Allen, a Leake County native, had lived in Canton 47 years. He had worked as a truck driver for Canton Butane. He was also a musician and carpenter. He was a member of Center Terrace Baptist Church in Canton where he was recently elected a lifetime deacon.

Survivors include: wife, Tommie; son, Wilson Allen of Memphis; daughter, Faye Bell of Pearl; sisters, Maggie Haggardy, Pearl Barfield and Bonnie Alford, all of Carthage; and five grandchildren.