St. Clair County Obits

EDNA MARTHA (JONES) ALLEN

Clinton Daily Democrat
July 1996
Edna M. Allen, M.D., 94, Lowry City, died Sunday evening, July 7, 1996, at Westwood Nursing Center in Clinton.
Edna Martha Jones, born September 28, 1901, was the third of twelve children born to Eli and Ollie Park Jones. She grew to young womanhood on the family farm in the Park Grove community, St. Clair County. Edna attended Park Grove Grade School and Lowry City and Osceola High schools.
At an early age she gave her life to Christ, followed him in baptism and united with the Park Grove Christian Church. She was one who remembered her Creator in the days of her youth and was faithful until death.
After graduating from high school she attended Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma, for a year, then taught Surprise School in Henry County. After a year of teaching, she attended the University of Missouri where she received a bachelor of science degree in medical science. In 1929 she received her M.D. degree from the University of Kansas Medical School.
From medical school she went to Maybury Sanitorium, Northville, Michigan. At retirement she was physician in charge of the children's division at Maybury Sanitorium. She was the author of many medical papers in her special field.
In August 1947 she was united in marriage to James Bailey Allen in Clarksville, Tennessee. After their retirement, they moved to their farm north of Clinton where they had 24 happy years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, five brothers and three sisters.
Survivors are a brother-in-law, Claude Allen and wife Nancy, Springfield; a brother, Melville Jones and his wife, Helen, rural Deepwater; sisters, Maye Coy of Santa Rosa, Texas, Ruby Bowyer of Gunnison, Colorado, and Crystal Sanders and her husband Bob, of Memphis, Tennessee.
Funeral services were Wednesday, July 10, at the Park Grove Christian Church. Burial was in Park Grove Cemetery.