Dallas Allen Obit
Submitted by: Sheila Kidwell
The Sentinel Echo
June 29, 2002
Dallas Allen, 73, of Johnson Road, London, Kentucky, died Saturday, June 29, 2002, at the Marymount Medical Center in London.
Born April 25, 1929, in Laurel County, Kentucky, she was a retired worker for
the American Greetings Co. and was a member of the Emmanuel Missionary Baptist
Church of London.
She was preceded in death by his parents, Lizzie (Crook) Proffitt and Zee
Proffitt; a son, Travis Allen; and a brother, Esmond Edward Proffitt.
Survivors include her husband of 51 years, Billie Allen, of London, Kentucky,
whom she married on February 26, 1951; a daughter, Diane Brooks and husband
Terry of Williamsburg, Kentucky; a son, Shawn Allen and wife Vickie of London,
Kentucky; two brothers, Zee Proffitt Jr. of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, and
Franklin Proffitt of London, Kentucky; a sister, Masacal Cowin of Cambridge,
Indiana; and a grandson, Chad Tankersley of London, Kentucky.
Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, July 1, at the House-Rawlings
Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Cecil Benge, Bro. Jerry Hurst, and Bro. Hardin
Owens officiating.
Burial followed in the Cumberland Memorial Gardens at Lily, Kentucky.