Katherine Clare Allen

ALLEN, Katherine Clare, a lifelong resident of Nashville, was born March 5, 1925. She was a modest, quiet woman and a charitable Christian. On August 22, 1990, President George H. Bush chose her to be a “Point of Light” for her dedicated volunteer work upon the recommendation of the administrators of Harris Hillman Special Education School. She also volunteered for years with the American Red Cross delivering blood across Tennessee. She was a resident of Richland Place in Nashville. She graduated from Calvert School, West End High School, and Ward-Belmont College. For nearly half a century she worked faithfully as a technician in the Vanderbilt Hospital hematology laboratory. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church where she taught Sunday school for many years. Her funeral will be held there. She will be buried in the family plot in the Brush Creek cemetery alongside her mother, Lou Willie Sykes Allen, and her father, Newton Clarence Allen. She leaves a brother, Ward Allen, and his wife, Peggy McComas Allen, seven nieces and nephews, and their children and grandchildren. Her sister, Jane Allen Morrel Gregory, passed away last year. The funeral service will be conducted at eleven o’clock the morning of Wednesday, the 7th of August, at First Presbyterian Church Stanford Chapel by the Rev. Dr. Todd Jones, with visitation one hour prior to the service in the Cheek House.