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Submitted: 7/13/09 • Approved: 9/7/16 • Last Updated: 4/30/23 • R212910-G212909-S3
Myrid 18 Mar 1912 - 12 Oct 2001
Otha 22 Dec 1912 - 28 Oct 2005
Myrid's parents were James Allen and Mary A. Allen; Otha's parents were George William Hislip and Nancy Emily Watkins Hislip
Otha's Siblings: Doshie Hyslip Freeman (1906 - 1988)Buried in Lawrence Memorial Park Cemetery, Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas
Everette R Hyslip (1908 - 1981)Burie in Spotts Cemetery
Mary Hyslip Freeman (1915 - 2007)Buried in Lawrence Memorial Park, Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas.
*Obituary
Qualls Funeral Home
Otha Allen, 92, of Lynn, died Oct. 28, 2005, at the White River Medical Center in Batesville.
Born Dec. 22, 1912, in Sharp County, she was the daughter of George W. & N. Emily Hyslip. She was a homemaker and a member of the Lynn Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Myrid Allen; a son, Junior Allen; a brother, Everett Hyslip; and two sisters, Doshie Freeman and Bertha Jones.
Survivors include a son, George Allen, a sister, Mary Thom, four grandchildren, Jonathan, Christine, Anthony and Nancy; and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral was Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Lynn Church of Christ with Don Eubanks officiating. Burial was in Spotts Cemetery at Poughkeepsie under the direction of Qualls Funeral Home of Cave City.
Contributed on 7/13/09 by tootied
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