J. P. Allen

1912 - 2002

Dr. J. P. Allen, 89, died Sunday, July 7, 2002, at a local hospital.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Sanctuary of Broadway Baptist Church. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home. Private Interment at Greenwood Memorial Park.

Memorials: Should friends desire, memorials may be given to the Memorial Fund at Broadway Baptist Church.

J. P. Allen was born Nov. 22, 1912, in Birmingham, Ala. He was a graduate of Louisiana College, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. and in 1940 received his doctorate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

He served as pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth from 1963-1970, during which he established the ministry now know as The Baptist Center, and taught an adult Sunday School Class which was named the Allen Bible Class in March 1992. Following his retirement, he served as vice president and director of the Division of Audience Research and Response of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission from 1970-1979, after which he served as professor of preaching from 1979-1987 at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Dottie Allen.

Survivors: Wife, Elaine Killen Allen; daughter, Trish Allen Asmus and husband, Stewart, of Coral Springs, Fla.; granddaughter, Stacy Donner and husband, Matt, of Plantation, Fla. and their son, Grayden Allen Donner, Shannon Atkins and husband, Ben, of London, England; stepson, Robert K. Douglass of Fort Worth; stepdaughter, Melanie Brooks and husband, Bart, of Fort Worth and their children, Cody and Summer; brother, Eugene Allen of Minden, La.; nephews and nieces, including Mary Margaret Clay of Fort Worth.