Tommie Allen, Jr.

Four Oaks, NC:  Mr. Tommie Allen, Jr., age 79 of 286 Thompson Road died Tuesday at UNC Johnston Health in Smithfield.  Funeral service will be 6:00PM-Thursday at Rose & Graham Funeral Chapel in Four Oaks.  Revs. Tod Creech, Billy Nowell and Emmitt Jones will officiate.  A private graveside will be held.      Mr. Allen was born on January 31, 1936 in Johnston County to the late Tommie, Sr. and Bettie Jackson Allen.  He was preceded in death by sisters, Betty Pearl Keen, Lois Allen Stanley and Dorothy Allen Stewart.  Mr. Allen was the retired owner and operator of Tommie Allen Appliances and member of Bethel Free Will Baptist Church.           Surviving are wife of 57 years, Floy Stanley Allen; sons, Jeffrey Allen and Jonathan Allen both of Four Oaks; grandchildren, Ashley Allen, Brandon Allen, Patience Braswell and Lindsay Allen; great-grandchildren, Joy Allen, Mathew Braswell, and Mackenzie Braswell; sisters, Margaret Taylor of Garner; Jackie McLamb of Tennessee; many nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at Rose and Graham Funeral Home in Four Oaks and other times at the home. Flowers are welcomed, however memorials may be sent to Bethel Free Will Baptist Church, C/O Harold W. Lassiter, Jr. 1073 Faith Church Road, Four Oaks, NC 27524.