This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#223581) Lucian Erasmus Allen <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=223581> AUTHOR: David L. Skipto DATE: 2/26/2009 at 13:47:48 Surnames: ALLEN,MARSHALL Wapello - Lucian Erasmus (Whitey) Allen, 73, dropped dead while raking leaves at the Clarence Askern home at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Mar 27, 1956. Last rites will be held at the Dudgeon Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Thursday. The Rev. Floyd L. Shepherd, pastor of the Wapello Metrhodist Church, will officiate, and burial will be in the Wapello Cemetery. A long-time resident of the Wapello community, Allen was born in Indiana on April 3, 1882. His wife, Della Rachel Allen, died in September of 1953. Allen is survived by a son, Ralph Allen and a grandson, both of Cincinnati, Ohio, and a stepson, Marritt Marshall, of Wapello.