Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
November 1981

Thurman Allen

RAYVILLE -- Services for Thurman Allen, 75, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Brown-Holley Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. Robert W. Martin officiating.

Burial will be in Greer Cemetery.

Mr. Allen died Wednesday in Conway Memorial Hospital in Monroe after a short illness.

He was a retired farmer and member of Zebedee Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife Mrs. Myrtle Allen of Rayville; a daughter Mrs. Alice Faye Wilson of Rayville; brother, Andy Allen of Rayville; two sisters, Mrs. Betty Alford of Carthage, Miss., and Mrs. Joyce Henson of Archibald; and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Leon Gibson, Bobby Bledsoe, Jimmy Pittman, Ted Crawford, Bobby Cheek and Richard Warren.