FLORA ALLEN

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Flora Belle Allen, 87, of Mounds died Thursday, March 15, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born March 12, 1914, in Ullin, Ill., daughter of John and Flora Shifley Adkins. She married Fred Allen, who died in 1994.

Allen was a member of First Baptist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Ellen Windings of Villa Ridge, Ill., Marion Rhude of Belleville, Ill.; five sons, Randall Allen of Mounds, Fred Allen of Pulaski, Ill., Carl Brown of Marietta, Ga., Dr. Brian Allen of Nokomis, Fla., Gary Allen of Toledo, Ohio; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son.

Funeral was held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds. The Revs. John Windings, Stephen Wolfe and Verlee Eaker officiated. Burial was in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge.