ALLENE COCHRAN

ABILENE - Allene Mulloy Monk Cochran passed from this life on Feb. 24, 2009. A celebration of her life will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Elliott-Hamil Chapel of Faith on Hwy 277, Abilene, Texas. Family visitation will be held at the Elliott-Hamil Chapel on Hwy 277 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27. The Rev. Kevin Ueckert of the Southside Baptist Church will officiate the service. Allene Mulloy was born on Dec. 31, 1909, at home on a farm near Greens Creek, Erath County, Texas to E. E. Mulloy and Willie Mae Lewis Mulloy. She graduated from High School in Deleon, Texas, as the Salutatorian in 1925 and at 16 years of age went to business school on a scholarship in Abilene, Texas. After graduating as a bookkeeper she worked in Abilene where she met and married Harvey Lee Monk on July 4, 1928. Harvey and Allene lived and worked in Abilene, including brief stops in Lamesa and Monahans, and they ranched in Callahan County. The 1950s drought forced them out of Texas to buy a ranch and move to North West Arkansas but they returned to Texas after a brief stay of a few years. After working in Pecos, Texas, for 10 years they returned to the ranch in the Ozarks where they again ranched for several years before retiring to a horse farm near Dublin, Texas. After selling out in Dublin they returned to Abilene in 1973 where they remained until their deaths. While originally in Abilene, a daughter Jeanne and a son Sherman were born. It was in Abilene where Harvey Monk died on July 31, 1980, after 52 wonderful years of marriage. It was also in Abilene where Allene met and married Roy Cochran in August 1984. She and Roy enjoyed a happy life for 15 good years before Roy died on March 16, 1999. Preceding her in death were her parents and all five of her siblings. Also her husbands, Harvey Monk and Roy Cochran, along with her son-in-law, Larry Wright and her grandson, Richard (Ricky) Wright preceded her in death. Many of her good friends and most of her peers have preceded her along with the above. Survivors include her daughter, Jeanne Monk Wright of Abilene and her son, Sherman Monk and wife, Anita of San Angelo. Her surviving grandchildren are Larry Wright and wife Gwynne of Lake McQueeney, Steve Tisdale and wife Christina of Abilene, Randy Wright and wife Denise of Austin, and granddaughter-in-law, Leslie Wright of Austin. Also her grandchildren Tracie Monk and her husband, Dan Westrick of La Jolla, CA and David Monk and wife Kelly of San Angelo. Included also is her sister-in-law, Ellen Monk Jones and special niece, Vicky Copeland, both of Abilene, along with eight great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be her grandsons Larry Wright, Steve Tisdale, Randy Wright and David Monk along with her great-grandson Weslie Wright and great*grandson-in-law Bryan McCarty. In lieu of flowers please honor Allene by donating to a charity of your choice as she was in favor of all good deeds and charities