Franklin Caleb "Frank" Allen (1876-1940)

ALLEN, MCKIM, NELSON, SOWERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/8/2014 at 12:20:35

From unknown newspaper August 12, 1940

Funeral Services for Frank Allen Wednesday

Succumbing to a heart attack while being assisted from his home at 706 7th street to an automobile to be brought up town, Frank Allen, 63, died Saturday afternoon about 2 o'clock.

Mr. Allen for many years a farmer of Milford township had been an invalid much of the time since suffering a paralytic stroke about 11 years ago and tow years ago retired from the farm and moved to town. He had been able to be up and around and made regular trips to town.

Funeral rites will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p. m., at the home, after which the body will be interred in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery. The service will be in charge of Rev. Joseph M. Kennedy of Central Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Allen and his family were active members.

Mr. Allen was a native of Illinois, born at Emden, October 15, 1876, a son of Phillip and Mary Jane Allen. He came with the family to Iowa and settled on a farm in Milford township, Story county in 1896. There he lived and was married September, 1901, to Jessie Mae McKim, daughter of well-known neighboring family.

[They lived] on a farm in Milford and there had been the family home, where eight children were born to them, six of whom with the wife and mother survive. Two children, Willard and Jessie May died in infancy.

The surviving children are Phillip, Mac and George, all Milford township farmers, John who is in Los Angeles, California; Ruth, wife of Alvin Nelson of Richland township, and Mary, wife of Homer Vilmont of Ames.

He also leaves one brother, George Allen of Onawa, and one sister, Mrs. Sadie Sowers of Ames.

The son, John, who had been living in Los Angeles, is expected here Tuesday night and the sister, Mrs. Sowers, who had been vacationing in Colorado, will be back in time for the funeral.

Mr. Allen was a good farmer and stockman, was active in public affairs of the community as long as his health permitted and was prominent and respected in the community in which he had lived his entire adult life.

He was a kind husband and father and will be mourned by a wide circle of friends in addition to his wife, children, grandchildren, brother, sister and other relatives.