Davis Michael Allen

Funeral services for Davis Michael Allen, 60, retired Jackson business executive, were held Friday afternoon, January 16, from the chapel, of Haisten Funeral Home. Ministers of the Jackson Baptist and Methodist Churches, the Rev. Don Folsom and the Rev. Phil DeMore, officiated. Interment followed in the Jackson City Cemetery under the direction of Haisten Funeral Home.
While he was apparently recuperating in his home at 545 Woodland Way from a serious operation performed two weeks previously, he was stricken Sunday afternoon and rushed to the Medical, Center of Central Georgia in Macon where a second operation occurred Monday afternoon, with death following early Wednesday afternoon.
The son of the late Homer L. Allen, Sr. and the late Anice Little Allen, he was born in Butts County on September 23, 1915. For years his parents owned and operated Allen's Home-Ond Food Store, Inc. in Jackson and he operated the business following their deaths with a high degree of Success.
Possessor of a winning, outgoing personality, he numbered his friends and patrons in the hundreds and his store became one of the most successful business ventures in recent Jackson history.
A graduate of Jackson High School where he was an outstanding athlete, he attended Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
He was a staunch member and supporter of the First Baptist Church in Jackson and his liberality helped provide the Church with some of its most treasured memorials.
He was a member of the Griffin Elks Lodge No. 1207 and Griffin Lodge No. 1503, Order of the Moose. He was a member and past master of St. John's Lodge No. 45 F. & A.M. of Jackson.
Survivors include his wife, Catherine, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McMichael, of Jackson; three nephews, Robert M. Jackson of Jackson, Major Edgar Jackson of Langley AFB, Virginia and Dr. James M. Allen of Valdosta; one niece, Mrs. Tyler Garrett of Richmond, Virginia and one sister-in-law, Mrs. Homer Allen of Bainbridge, Georgia.
Active pallbearers were Paul Pruitt, Milton Daniel, Parks Newman, Raymond Kelly, E. M. McCord, John Lueken and Otis Stephens.

(Jackson Progress Argus - 22 Jan 1976)

Submitted by V. S. Harrison