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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The loss of retired pastor Ivan Eugene Allen of Lake |
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Jackson on May 21, 2012, is keenly felt by the many people whose |
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lives he forever enriched; and |
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WHEREAS, Born to Ivan and Aletta Allen on a family farm near |
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Booker on September 25, 1922, Ivan Allen graduated from Booker High |
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School in 1940; he then enrolled at Texas Technological College in |
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Lubbock and became a member of the U.S. Army Reserve Officer |
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Training Corps; in 1942, he joined the Army Reserve, and he served |
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on active duty in the army for two years; and |
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WHEREAS, Following his military service, Mr. Allen returned |
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to operate the family farm, where he grew wheat and corn, raised |
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chickens, and ran a small dairy; he joined the Methodist church in |
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Booker, where he met his future wife, Helen Ball; married in 1945, |
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the couple went on to spend nearly six decades together and were |
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blessed with three children, Leta, Charles, and Roger; and |
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WHEREAS, Mr. Allen answered the call to enter the ministry, |
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and in 1960, he received his first appointment within the Methodist |
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Church, moving with his family to Morse; in addition to serving the |
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congregation, he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at |
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Panhandle A&M College in Oklahoma in 1962; he was ordained a deacon |
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that same year and later became an elder in the Northwest Texas |
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Conference of the Methodist Church; and |
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WHEREAS, Over the next three decades, Pastor Allen served |
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congregations in Morse, Childress, New Deal, Sunray, Stinnett, |
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Sweetwater, Munday, and White Deer, and for a dozen years he served |
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as statistician with the church's Northwest Texas conference; |
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retiring in 1988, he moved with his wife to Childress, where he |
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remained active in the church and served as a hospice chaplain at |
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Childress Regional Medical Center; a valued member of the Childress |
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community for more than two decades, he moved to Lake Jackson in |
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2009 to be closer to family; and |
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WHEREAS, Pastor Ivan Allen lived a caring and purposeful |
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life, and though his death has brought great sorrow to all who knew |
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him, he leaves behind a legacy of good works that will long resonate |
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in the communities in which he served; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas |
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Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby pay tribute to the memory |
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of Ivan Eugene Allen and extend sincere sympathy to the members of |
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his family: to his children, Leta Ruth Loyd and her husband, Roger, |
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Charles Roy Allen and his wife, Sanjuana, and Roger Keith Allen and |
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his wife, Neeta; to his brother, R. D. Allen, and his wife, Jane; to |
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his sisters, Mamie Agler, Effie Townsend, and Dorothy Tate; to his |
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sister-in-law, Dorothy Allen; to his seven grandchildren and seven |
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great-grandchildren; and to his other relatives and friends; and, |
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be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for his family and that when the Texas House of |
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Representatives adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Ivan Allen. |
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King of Hemphill |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 178 was unanimously adopted by a |
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rising vote of the House on June 25, 2013. |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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