Great Falls Tribune (MT), 31 Jan 1964
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, Succumbs Here
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, died Thursday afternoon in a local hospital where he had been a patient the past four weeks.
Allen, a resident of Fort Benton and Chouteau county for 53 years, was one of the early homesteaders of the Pleasant Valley, north of Fort Benton. He came there in 1910 from Indiana, where he was born at Markle, Feb. 20, 1870.
He was a charter member of the First Christian Church in Fort Benton and had been an elder since its founding in 1916.
His wife, Bertha Mae, died in 1946.
He is survived by five sons, Durward, a pastor at Kearney, Neb., Ross J., who had been a pastor at Central Christian Church in Great Falls for nine years; Cecil, Fort Benton; and Jay W., Fort Morgan, Colo.; a daughter, Mrs. Esther McDonald of Great Falls; a niece, Mrs. Walter Hillstrand, Great Falls; 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.
From: cara
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, Succumbs Here
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, died Thursday afternoon in a local hospital where he had been a patient the past four weeks.
Allen, a resident of Fort Benton and Chouteau county for 53 years, was one of the early homesteaders of the Pleasant Valley, north of Fort Benton. He came there in 1910 from Indiana, where he was born at Markle, Feb. 20, 1870.
He was a charter member of the First Christian Church in Fort Benton and had been an elder since its founding in 1916.
His wife, Bertha Mae, died in 1946.
He is survived by five sons, Durward, a pastor at Kearney, Neb., Ross J., who had been a pastor at Central Christian Church in Great Falls for nine years; Cecil, Fort Benton; and Jay W., Fort Morgan, Colo.; a daughter, Mrs. Esther McDonald of Great Falls; a niece, Mrs. Walter Hillstrand, Great Falls; 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.
From: cara
Great Falls Tribune (MT), 31 Jan 1964
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, Succumbs Here
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, died Thursday afternoon in a local hospital where he had been a patient the past four weeks.
Allen, a resident of Fort Benton and Chouteau county for 53 years, was one of the early homesteaders of the Pleasant Valley, north of Fort Benton. He came there in 1910 from Indiana, where he was born at Markle, Feb. 20, 1870.
He was a charter member of the First Christian Church in Fort Benton and had been an elder since its founding in 1916.
His wife, Bertha Mae, died in 1946.
He is survived by five sons, Durward, a pastor at Kearney, Neb., Ross J., who had been a pastor at Central Christian Church in Great Falls for nine years; Cecil, Fort Benton; and Jay W., Fort Morgan, Colo.; a daughter, Mrs. Esther McDonald of Great Falls; a niece, Mrs. Walter Hillstrand, Great Falls; 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.
From: cara
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, Succumbs Here
Arthur L. Allen, 93, Fort Benton, died Thursday afternoon in a local hospital where he had been a patient the past four weeks.
Allen, a resident of Fort Benton and Chouteau county for 53 years, was one of the early homesteaders of the Pleasant Valley, north of Fort Benton. He came there in 1910 from Indiana, where he was born at Markle, Feb. 20, 1870.
He was a charter member of the First Christian Church in Fort Benton and had been an elder since its founding in 1916.
His wife, Bertha Mae, died in 1946.
He is survived by five sons, Durward, a pastor at Kearney, Neb., Ross J., who had been a pastor at Central Christian Church in Great Falls for nine years; Cecil, Fort Benton; and Jay W., Fort Morgan, Colo.; a daughter, Mrs. Esther McDonald of Great Falls; a niece, Mrs. Walter Hillstrand, Great Falls; 13 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson.
From: cara
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