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Allen Edgar WHITFIELD (VETERAN WWI)

Galatia Cemetery
Baxter County,
Arkansas

Arkansas
PRIVATE US Army
2 Battalion Replacement Training Center
World War I
April 12, 1897-September 20, 1951

Born Arkansas.
Died Bull Shoals, Arkansas, September 20, 1951.
Son of Jackson Daniel Whitfield and Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCurley Whitfield.
Married Hattie Ellen Adams, October 21 1921, Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas.

(Allen Edgar Whitfield had a fatal heart attack while working at the Bull Shoals Dam.)
The Baxter Bulletin
September 27, 1951
Funeral services for Alan Edgar Whitfield, 54, who died of a heart attack last Thrusday while working at the Bull Shoals Dam, were held Sunday at the Assembly of God Church at Galatia, with the Rev. Walter Hudson officiating. Burial was in the Galatia Cemetery with the Roller Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Whitfield was born in Baxter County, April 12, 1897, and spent his entire life here. He was a member of the Assembly of God Chruch and a veteran of World War One.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hattie Whitfield of Old Joe; four sons, Edward, Levi and Dean of Old Joe and Ray of Laramie, WY; seven daughters, Mrs. Betty Neel of Laramie, Mrs. Oneida Stevens of GrandParirie, TX, and Misses Helen, Wilma, Bobby, Patsy and Norma Lea of the home; his mother, Mrs. Lizzie Whitfield of Norfork; a brother, Bob of Norfork; and three sisters, Misses Maggie and Ollie Whitfield of Norfork and Mrs. Rose Parnell of Norfork.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)

Contributed on 8/11/09 by maxparnell
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Submitted: 8/11/09 • Approved: 12/10/11 • Last Updated: 1/11/13 • R220950-G0-S3

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