Gladys M. Chandler Allen

Published 5:00 am Friday, August 25, 2006

Services for Gladys M. Chandler Allen, of Bogue Chitto, are 11a.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel withburial in Mt. Olive Church of Christ Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home, andon Saturday from 8 a.m. until the time of the service.

Mrs. Allen, 104, died Aug. 24, 2006, at Countrybrook LivingCenter in Brookhaven. She was born in Brookhaven on Aug. 24, 1902,to Anderson Chandler and Anna Entrican Chandler.

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She was a homemaker. She was a member of Mt. Olive Church ofChrist and was the oldest member there. She was very active andsupportive of the church while she was able to attend.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Albert S.Allen; four sisters; and a daughter-in-law, Joanette Allen.

Survivors are her sons, Bernice A. Allen and wife Lorraine, ofInterlachen, Fla., Edwin C. Allen and wife Joyce, of Brandon, andAlvin K. Allen, of Virginia Beach, Va.; her daughter Anna RuthPeets and husband Albert Ray, of Wesson; her 11 grandchildren, 15great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.