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© Enid Morning News July 1994
Submitted by: Glenn

Willis F. Allen Jr.

February 16, 1912 ~ July 11, 1994

Springfield, Arkansas – Willis F. Allen Jr., 82, a longtime Oklahoma newspaper publisher and former Internal Revenue Service agent in the Enid office, died Monday, July 11, 1994, at his home in The Village retirement center, Springfield, Arkansas.

At his request there were no funeral services. The body was cremated.

Allen moved to Springdale in 1989 and was an active member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist.

He was born February 16, 1912 in (?) Creek to Willis S. Sr. and Stewart Allen and moved with the family to Vinita in 1916 where they published what is now The Vinita Daily Journal. In 1928, the family moved to Stillwater and published The Stillwater News until 1940. He graduated from Stillwater high school in 1930 and earned a degree in business administration from Oklahoma A & M College in 1934. He was an accomplished musician, and was concertmaster of the high school and college orchestra. He also was a vocal soloist in a number of churches. He served as city editor of The Stillwater News, and joined the Soil Conservation Service at Stillwater as an accountant before purchasing The Lindsay News in 1941. The family moved to Duncan in 1945 to published The Duncan Eagle until 1961.

In 1936, he married Letha Bennett of Ardmore. They had three children.

On January 9, 1965, he married Alice Martin Bolon of Tulsa.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Elizabeth Overstreet and Judy Good both of Oklahoma City; one son, Willis Frank Allen of Oklahoma City; three stepsons, Craig Bolon of Brookline, Massachusetts, Warren Bolon of Quincy, Massachusetts, and Paul Bolon of Vienna, Virginia; one sister, Olive Goodpaster of Vinita; and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one brother and three sisters. 

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