Luther Ledford Allen, 75, of Claxton, died Tuesday, May 3, at home.<\/p>\n
He was a member of Zion Baptist Church of Claxton.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ledford\u00a0was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Army with the 88th division. He retired from Union Carbide Corp. An avid baseball enthusiast, he played with the Knoxville Smokies and signed with the St. Louis Browns.<\/p>\n
He was preceded in death by his son, Steve \u201cZyro\u201d Allen; his mother, Betty Jane Allen; and brother, Arthur \u201cOtt\u201d Land.<\/p>\n
Survivors include his wife, Laura Clayton Allen; daughter and son-in-law, Terri and Keith Gaines; brother and sister-in-law, Victor and Glenna\u00a0Allen; cousin, Homer Logsdon; sisters-in-law, Blanche Lones, Gladys Peterson, Hazel Blalock, Beulah Wilder and Cynthia Clayton; and several nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
Funeral service will be 2 pm Friday, May 6 at Weaver\u2019s Chapel with the Rev. Glen Gamble officiating. Burial will follow at Highland Memorial Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Friends may call from 7-9 pm Thursday at Weaver\u2019s Cumberland Memorial Chapel.<\/p>\n
Clinton Courier News, <\/em>4 May 1994<\/p>\n [Courtesy of Brenda Foster]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Luther Ledford Allen, 1994: Luther Ledford Allen, 75, of Claxton, died Tuesday, May 3, at home. He was a member of Zion Baptist Church of Claxton. Mr. Ledford\u00a0was Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-a-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4970,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}