Max Lavere Allsup (1955)
ALLSUP, WILSON, COX, FELLOWS, PAULLIN, ALGREEN, HANEY
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 4/20/2017 at 15:58:08
Dexter Sentinel
Dexter, Iowa
Thursday, June 23, 1955Max Allsup Killed in Auto Crash
Former Dexter Resident
Max Allsup, 33, former Dexter resident, died of injuries received when the car he was driving plunged from the road near Tucson, Arizona, Thursday morning, June 9, and crashed into the bank of a wash. Mr. Allsup was alone at the time of the accident, and relatives in Colfax were notified of the crash about mid-morning, when officials from Arizona contacted Glenn Allsup, the victim’s brother.
Obituary
Max Lavere Allsup, son of Albert and Lucretia Allsup was born near Milo, Iowa on October 8, 1921 and died as a result of an accident when he fell asleep at the wheel of his car as he was returning home from his work at Tucson, Arizona, Thursday morning, June 9, 1955.
When a lad of four years he moved with his family to Dexter, where he spent his early life. He received his high school education in Earlham, and in 1940 went to Colfax to make his home. Soon after he enlisted in the U.S. Navy serving for four years in the South Pacific theater. He received his honorable discharge in October of 1945. He then spent two years in Blair, Nebr., and two years in Greenland doing government construction work. In December of 1953 he and his family moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he has been employed the past eighteen months as manager of a café.
He was united in marriage to Velma Helen Wilson of Colfax in 1947 and to this union two children were born, Crystal Sue now 7 and Howard Max, 4.
He is survived by his widow, son and daughter, his father, A. R. Allsup of Winterset, his mother, Mrs. Lucretia Allsup of Dexter, five brothers, Earl of Winterset, Howard of Council Bluffs, Glenn of Colfax, Earnest of Dexter and Kenneth of Iowa City, and five sisters, Mrs. F. W. Cox of Des Moines, Mrs. Chas. Fellows of Indianola, Mrs. Ward Paullin and Mrs. Keith Algreen of Dexter and Mrs. Raymond Haney of Newton.
Funeral services were conducted from the Presbyterian church in Colfax, Monday afternoon, June 13 with the Rev. W. E. Dutton, former pastor of the church officiating. Burial was in the Colfax cemetery.
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