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Submitted: 11/10/14 • Approved: 11/10/14 • Last Updated: 11/13/14 • R1050685-G1050685-S3
Fanning
1903 - 1982
Annequinn
1917 - 2014
Obituary
thesuntimes.com
Posted Feb. 3, 2014 @ 10:43 am
Annequinn Lafferty Allison, a retired librarian and widow of Fanning S. Allison, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Heber Springs. She was 96.
Born Feb. 4, 1917, to Quinn Everett and Anne Lucile Irwin Lafferty in Oakland, Tenn., Mrs. Allison spent more than 40 years in Heber Springs, having been an English teacher and librarian in Tennessee, Texas, and Arkansas. From those hardscrabble years in Fayette County, Tenn., where she matured during the Great Depression, she gained increasing respect for education and, especially, the arts and library sciences. That devotion to learning provided particular satisfaction as she traveled the world, spending winters in Florida and traveling the United States, Mexican states, and Canadian provinces.
Mrs. Allison graduated from George Peabody College, now Vanderbilt University, with a bachelor’s degree before continuing studies at Texas Women’s University, where she earned a master’s of library science. She was a retired librarian and teacher from Texas Christian University, the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Harrison Public Schools, and Heber Springs High School.
Although she did not return to Heber Springs until 1967, Mrs. Allison had strong, longtime connections to the Cleburne County. A cousin, Moody Irwin, who lived in both Heber Springs and Harrison, hosted her on her first date with Fanning Shaw Allison, whose sister Irene was married to Moody. That date was a card game on Dec. 3, 1945, just months before their Feb. 6, 1946, marriage in Eureka Springs. Often over the subsequent decades, they returned to the county to visit cousins and friends, including his parents, Herbert and Doxie Ragsdale Allison, and her parents, who moved to Higden in the early 1960s.
The couple made home in several locations in Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma, with Mr. Allison a business manager and bookkeeper, and Mrs. Allison, a teacher and librarian. Her first job was near her hometown of Oakland, teaching first and second grade for $35 a month.
Mrs. Allison will be remembered with fondness by family and friends for her Southern drawl, wit, and impressively sharp mind. She stayed abreast of society and politics until the final few weeks of her life. Most importantly, she stayed in contact with a wide array of friends and family members, ever vigilant to inquire of their health and journeys in life. Her ailing heart, which prevented her from the travel that she so dearly loved, began to weaken in recent years — yet it was powerless to keep her from spreading affection.
She was a member of several social and educational organizations, including Cardon Creek Order of the Eastern Star and Handsboro Eastern Star Chapter in Gulport, Miss.; past president of Heber Springs Study Club AFWC; past president of the Trustee Division of Arkansas Libraries; past chairman of the Cleburne County Library Trustees; and past secretary of Texas Special Libraries. She was selected for Who’s Who of American Women.
Contributed on 11/10/14 by hawkinsdonna
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