Sonny Allen, 80, of Wellston, passed away on Sunday evening, November 8, 2015, at Holzer Medical Center-Jackson.<\/p>\n
He was born in Wellston, Ohio, on March 24, 1935, to the late Ark B. Allen and Viola Deal Allen. He was a former resident of Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was one of the first employees of the new Frisch\u2019s Big Boy restaurant and later employed as a maintenance worker for the city of Chillicothe. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Debbie Sue Allen; four brothers, Bob, Paul, Ray, and Jimmy Allen; and three sisters, Sonja Lou Glasco, Erma Crow, and Mary Crow.<\/p>\n
He married his wife of 58 years, Shirley Mercer Allen, on November 9, 1957.<\/p>\n
She is a resident of Heartland of Jackson. Besides his wife, he is also survived by three brothers, Larry Allen of Columbus, Ohio, Ronnie Allen of Oak Hill, Ohio, and John Allen; a sister, Barbara Clark, of Columbus, Ohio; grandsons Zachary Allen and Jeremiah Allen; several great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Friends may call at the Jenkins Funeral Chapel in Wellston on Friday from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Graveside services will follow at 2:15 p.m. At the Ridgewood Cemetery in Wellston with Pastor Steve Mathews officiating.<\/p>\n
Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.samjenkinsfuneralchapel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonny Allen, 80, of Wellston, passed away on Sunday evening, November 8, 2015, at Holzer Medical Center-Jackson. He was born in Wellston, Ohio, on March 24, 1935, to the late Ark B. Allen and Viola Deal Allen. He was a former resident of Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was one of the first employees of the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}