Funeral services for Oliver R. Allen, ofCorinth, Texas, are 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 22, at TuscaloosaMemorial Chapel, with burial in Tuscaloosa Memorial ChapelCemetery. Pastor Shawn Odell, of Corinth Baptist Church in Elrod,Ala., will be officiating.

    Visitation is Monday from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

    Mr. Allen, 83, died Nov. 16, 2011, in Denton, Texas. He was born inBibb County, Ala., on April 5, 1928, to William Lonzo Allen andSarah Estell White Allen, of Bibb County.

    He worked at St. Regis Paper in 1953 in Jacksonville, Fla. andretired as superintendent of the shipping and finishing departmentin Monticello. He was a member of the Masons, Shriners since 1964,and of the Eastern Star.

    Preceding him in death were his parents.

    Survivors are his wife of 64 years, Gladys Brewer Allen; sons,Wayne Allen and wife, Gail, and James Michael Allen and wife,Melissa; sister, Jewel Abston, of Oklahoma; brother, Harold Allenand wife, Dean, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; three grandchildren, JustinAllen, Richard Allen and Denise McMullin and husband, Marty; andsister and brother-in-law, Carolyn and Tommy Hannah, ofJacksonville, Fla.

    Pallbearers will be Milton Duncan, David Eveningthunder, PhillipHannah, Tommy Hannah, Rayburn Hannah, Marty McMullin and RaySullivan.