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Audie Allen Obituary
Audie Allen went home to be with the Lord at the Copley Health Center on June 10, 2009.
He was born in Camden, Arkansas on August 6, 1912 to the late Exia and Robert Allen, fourth of ten children and had lived in Akron, Ohio for over 60 years. He retired from The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company with 29 years of service. He was a former member of Mt. Zion Baptist and was currently a member of Second Baptist Church. He was a former member of the Chapel Hill Walking Club, Ed Davis Senior's Club and Golden Hearts Senior Club, traveling with them on trips to many various states. He was a soft spoken man who loved baking, cooking and gardening.
He was known to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as "PaPa" and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Audie is survived by his devoted wife of 30 years, Marian Allen; children, Preston Davis of Atlanta, Georgia; Deborah Rice and Pamela (James) Mansel of Akron, Ohio; brothers, Manatha (Earnestine) Allen of Fayetteville, North Carolina and Marvin (Viola) Allen of Des Moines, Iowa; grandchildren, Oscar Parmer, Jerome Davis, Jaimar Mansel, Kristi Mansel, Chance Rice; seven great-grandchildren, Malek, Ashante, DeEvann, Kalia, Maki, Gabriel and Nevaeh, all of Akron, Ohio, several nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.
Services will be held on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 12 noon at Second Baptist Church, Pastor Roderick Pounds Presiding and Dr. I.T. Bradley, Eulogizing. Interment Mt. Peace Cemetery. Friends may call on the same day from 11 a.m. until time of service. Procession will form at 569 Cliffside Drive and condolences may be sent to 1500 Marion Avenue, Apt. 311, Akron, Ohio 44313.
The family wishes to thank Copley Health Center and his special hospice nurse, Kim Casey, heart doctor, Dr. M. Hughs of Akron General and family doctor, Dr. Rosann DiLauro.
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Memories and Condolences
for Audie Allen
Rev Sheree and family
June 22, 2009
My thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
Kathryn Lee
June 17, 2009
Dear Allen Family,
May you find strength in this time of sorrow and know that friends are near, remembering you with each passing hours in loving thought and prayer.
Love Kitty
Deborah Watson
June 15, 2009
Please accept my deepest sympathies and prayers for your loss.
Much Love,
Deborah
Sid Blair
June 15, 2009
Please accept our deepest sympathies in your time of loss.
Best,
Rosie and Sid Blair
Pamela Bray
June 15, 2009
Dear Mrs. Allen & Family:
I am offering deepest condolences on behalf of my mother Eula Bray at the passing of your husband. She was your neighbor at Chapel Hill Towers. She would want you to know that as you go through your grief period to allow yourself to rest in the goodness of the Promises of God, one of which is weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. You will know the joy has come when you think of him with that beautiful smile that I always saw on your face. God Bless and keep you through your breavement.
Juanakee Hinton
June 15, 2009
Pam & Jimmie,
Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Much love to all of you at this difficult time and always.
Stewart & Calhoun Funeral Home
June 15, 2009
Offering our deepest condolences during this difficult time.
Billie
June 14, 2009
Preston and family. My thoughts and prayers are with you in this time of grief.
Patricia L. H-Jackson and Family
June 14, 2009
Pam and Family,
Look to Him for your understanding, and wisdom, you will find the comfort ONLY He can give.
Our prayer is for you to be able to make this necessary adjustment, and believe God for EVERYTHING you need.
He knows and He cares.
He did it for me--surely He will do it for you.
Be Ever Blessed,
GAYLE / EDDIE BROWN
June 13, 2009
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
Kim Scanlan
June 12, 2009
Dear Pamela and family,
May God's comfort bless you and your family as your hearts also feel His never-ending love witnessed by your sharing of the memories of Audie's life - - until you are all together again with Him who keeps us from falling . . . In Christ's name,
Debbie Pfautz
June 12, 2009
Pamela,
As the days pass, and as you return to life's routine, may you find comfort resting in God's peace that passes all understanding, and by the love and support of family and friends.
Doris Williams
June 12, 2009
Dear Mrs. Allen and family, may God bless you during this difficult time, and know that earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
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