Homer Allen Rites At Bainbridge

Homer L. Allen, Jr., 62, Standard Oil agent and prominent Bainbridge business, civic and religious leader, died Wednesday, March 20th, after suffering a heart attack about a week earlier while vacationing in Florida.
Mr. Allen died at Florida Hospital in Orlando after suffering a heart attack near Clermont, Florida while enroute home from a visit to Disney World with his wife, Mrs. Frances McKibben Allen, and his brother, Mike Allen of Jackson, and Mrs. Allen. After several days in a hospital at Clermont, he was moved to Orlando but never roused from the coma into which he slipped at the time of the attack.
Born in Constitution, Georgia, on July 22nd, 1911, Mr. Allen was the son of the late Mr. Homer L. Allen, Sr. and Mrs. Anice Little Allen, both natives of Monroe County. Mr. Allen, Sr., widely known Jackson merchant, was drowned on March 17, 1948 in a tragic boating accident in the Ocmulgee River below the Lloyd Shoals dam. Mrs. Allen, Sr. died July 11, 1966.
Reared in Jackson, Mr. Allen attended and graduated from the local public schools and attended Georgia Tech, graduating in 1934. Soon after his graduation, Mr. Allen married the former Miss Frances McKibben and accepted a position in Griffin with National Biscuit Company, moving shortly thereafter to Cairo when he became affiliated with H. V. Kell Company.
A short time late Mr. Allen became the Standard Oil Agent in Cairo and held that position until approximately ten years ago when he was transferred to Bainbridge, holding the Standard Oil Agency at the time of his death.
Mr. Allen was an officer in the U. S. Army during World War II, being stationed on Okinawa and serving elsewhere in the Pacific theater. He retired as a Major.
Active in many civic and business affairs, in both Cairo and Bainbridge, Mr. Allen was a member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of Bainbridge. He also enjoyed membership in the Bainbridge Country Club.
Mr. Allen was a member of the Bainbridge Rotary Club, a past president of the Cairo-Grady County Chamber of Commerce, and a past president of the Cairo Kiwanis Club.
Funeral services were conducted Friday morning at 11 o'clock from the chapel of Cox Funeral Home in Bainbridge with interment in Rose Lawn Memory Gardens.
Mr. Allen is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Tyler Garrett of Richmond, Va.; one son, Dr. James Allen of Valdosta; one brother, Davis Michael Allen of Jackson; one sister, Mrs. Edna A. Jackson of Jackson; six grandchildren.

(Jackson Progress Argus - 28 Mar 1974)

Submitted by V. S. Harrison