Burial in Blair Cemetery; Died 1 Feb 1953

Published in Pilot Tribune on 12 February 1953

ALLEN, EX-RAILROAD MAN, SUCCUMBS AT 85

Burial was in Blair Cemetery yesterday for 85-year-old Lee Otto Allen of Omaha, onetime railroad man and former Blairite, who died in Omaha.

Mr. Allen, who once lived on North Center Street, had moved to Omaha several years ago and was residing with a daughter, Mrs. Art Lorenzen. Lately he had been in a rest home.

A retired railroad man, he later was custodian at West School for many years.

Surviving him are two daughters, Mrs. Lorenzen (Margaret) of Omaha and Mrs. Ruth McComb of Oakland, Calif.; one son, E. Ray Allen of Chicago; four grandchildren and one great- grandchild.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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