Alton C. Allen

ALLEN, CONRAD, SCHNEIDER, MCCULLEY, PLANK, MCWILLIAMS, HOWELL, PALMER, HATHAWAY, TALNAK

Posted By: David L. Skipton (email)
Date: 3/7/2009 at 00:35:41

The Muscatine Journal, June 11, 2002.

Alton C. Allen, 82, Muscatine, died Monday, June 10, 2002, at his home.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home with Masonic Rites. Burial will be at Muscatine Memorial Park Cemetery with Military Rites conducted by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. A time of food and fellowship will be held in the Community Room at the funeral home after the burial.

Visitation is 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Shriners Hospitals for Children or Genesis Hospice Foundation.

Mr. Allen was born Nov. 11, 1919, in Luce Hill, Coutland County, N.Y., the son of William D. and Alice Maud Conrad Allen. He married Marjorie Schneider Oct. 30, 1942, in Washington D.C. She prededed him in death in 1973. He later married Beatrice J. Plank McCulley April 23, 1975, in Louisa County. She preceded him in death in 1999.

He was a 55-year member of the Masonic Lodge and was a member of the KAABA Temple and the Scottish Rite, Davenport.

He surved in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Hospital Corpsman and retired as a Chief Petty Officer in 1959 after 20 years of service.

He farmed in the Muscatine area for more than 25 years and served on the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors for four years.

Survivors include a son, Jack Allen, and wife Joyce (Biggerstaff) of Lakewood, Calif.; two daughters, Kay McWilliams and husband Edward of College Station, Texas and Ann Howell and husband Mike of Pleasant Hope, Mo.; two
stepssons, Robert McCulley of Grandview and Clarence "Butch" McCulley and wife Elaine of Columbus Junction; two stepdaughters, Dixie Palmer and husband Maynard of Morning Sun and Theresa Palmer and husband Gary of Afton; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; numerous stepgrandchildren; two brothers, Barton Allen and wife Ruth of Charlotte, N.C. and George K. Allen of Belchertown, Mass.

He was preceded in death by his parents; both wives; two sisters, Mabel Hathaway and Mildred Talnak; and a brother; William Allen.