Mary Allen

Four Oaks:    Mrs. Mary Ann Strickland Allen,  age 86,  died on Saturday at the SECU Hospice House in Smithfield.   Funeral  Services  will  be 11:00AM-Tuesday at the First Baptist Church in Four Oaks. Rev. John Norman will officiate.  Burial will follow in the Four Oaks City Cemetery.              Mrs. Allen was born on December 29, 1928 in Johnston County to the late Ethan Willis and Prinzenia Canaday Strickland. She was preceded in death by her husband,  Ira Allen, Jr., sister, Patricia Cannon, and brother, Willis Edgar Strickland. Mrs. Allen was a retired telephone operator with Carolina Telephone.  She was a member of First Baptist Church of Four Oaks.             Surviving are son and daughter-in-law, Robert E. and Rose Allen of Four Oaks, grandchildren, Summer A. McLamb and husband, Brian of Hillsborough; and Casey Allen of Four Oaks; great-grandchildren, Allison, Caleb, Katherine, and Jonathan McLamb; sister, Brookie Register of Four Oaks;             Family will receive friends 6:00PM-8:00PM Monday at Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Four Oaks and other times at the home of Robert E. & Rose Allen 203 W. Hatcher Street, Four Oaks, NC 27524.             Flowers are welcomed, however the family suggest memorials to the First Baptist Church of Four Oaks, PO Box 717, Four Oaks, NC 27524, or to the SECU Hospice House, PO Box 1376, Smithfield, NC 27577.