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Elvin Allen and Nelda Henry Allen of Evant both died after 51 years together in mar-riage.
Mr. Elvin died on Feb. 24, 2007 and his wife followed on Feb. 27.
A funeral service for the Al-lens was held on March 1 in the Pearl Church of Christ with Bill Wheeless Jr. and Dick Decker officiating. Burial followed in the Hurst Ranch Cemetery.
Mr. Allen was born Jan. 22, 1921 in Gouldbusk, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mabry Allen. Mrs. Allen was born Sept. 26, 1934 in Mills County, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barton B. Henry.
Before meeting his wife, Mr. Allen served his country in the United States Army Air Corp.
They were married on Sept. 2, 1955 in Winters. They were together in all things they ac-complished in their lives. The couple had a loving home and never met a stranger.
Mr. Allen worked as a sound technician for many years be-fore his retirement and Mrs. Allen was a bookkeeper before her own retirement. They were members of the Pearl Church of Christ in Pearl.
Survivors include a daugh-ter, Mitzi Horton and her hus-band Steve of Longview; a son, Cliff Allen and his wife Sue of Waco; Mr. Allen’s niece, Ruby and her husband Bill of Lampa-sas who were considered a daughter and son, five grand-children, Shelby, Megan and Austin Horton and Zach and Amanda Allen and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Mr. Olson
Charles Moran Olson of Cranfills Gap died March 13, 2007. A memorial service was held March 18 in the St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Cranfills Gap.
Mr. Olson was born May 15, 1940 in Dallas, the only child of Orville and Ruby Olson of the Live Oak community near Cranfills Gap.
He attended Cranfills Gap schools where he graduated in 1958. He received his Associ-ates degree in 1961 from Tarle-ton and then attended North Texas State College where he graduated in January 1963.
He was married to Jeanene McAnally in October of 1963. Mr. Olson worked for the American Red Cross as an as-sistant field director at Lack-land AFB and then at Flak Kaserne in Ludwigsburg, Ger-many.
He went to work for the Methodist Home in Waco in 1968 and then in 1969 he began his career with State Farm In-surance as a claims specialist.
After 27 years with State Farm he and his wife retired to the family farm in 1996. He worked for a time as an inde-pendent claims adjustor and in antique sales before his illness forced him to fully retire.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Charles Christian Olson and wife Wendy of Bed-ford and Nathan Blake Olson and wife Michelle of Azle; a daughter, Dana Lynne Krauss and partner John Jones of Euless; grandchildren, Dallas Krauss, Garrett Hurst, Grace Olson, Mikayla Olson and Na-than Blake Olson Jr.
The family requests that memorials be made to St. Olaf Lutheran Church Endowment Fund, 402 Meridian St. Cran-fills Gap 76637 or Clifton Lu-theran Sunset Home, building fund, dementia unit, P.O. Box 71, Clifton 76634 or the Alz-heimer’s Association.
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Mr. Payne
Chester A. Payne, 86, of Hamilton died March 14, 2007 in the Forrest Oaks Nursing Home. Funeral services were held March 16 in the Riley Fu-neral Home Chapel with Wade Lackey and Neil Carroll offici-ating. Burial followed in the Cox Cemetery near Sydney.
Mr. Payne was born Dec. 8, 1920 in Crews, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Marvin and Sarah Beth Hurt Payne.
He was married to Eloise Caraway on April 8, 1944 in Stephenville. She preceded him in death in 1991.
Mr. Payne was a longtime farmer and rancher in the Ham-ilton area. He was a member of the Evergreen Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by four sisters, Jewel Norwood, Golda Elliott, Margaret Hurt, Treva Newton; a brother, Ollie Payne and a great-grandson, Shane Carroll in 1996.
Survivors include three chil-dren, Lorena Carroll and her husband Dwain of Comanche; Coda Bottlinger and her hus-band Jr. of Hamilton, Bishop Payne and his wife Debbie of Buchanan Dam; a sister, Ge-neva Strickland of Comanche, 10 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews.
Serving as pallbearers were Neil Carroll, Alan Humphrey, Michael Parton, Joseph Brum-balow, Clay Moore and Tho-mas Carroll.
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