Ben P. Allred, 85, died on May 29th in the Wedgewood Convalescent Home in Fort Worth following a brief illness.
He was a native of Bowie and was the son of one of the local pioneer families, the late Mr. and Mrs. Renne Allred, Sr. He attended Bowie schools as well as the Bowie Commercial College.
Allred started his business career as a secretary to a railway company and later became a court reporter as well as an attorney and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas on September 6, 1920.
In World War I, Allred served as a Sergeant in the Headquarters Detachment of the 18th Division in San Antonio, working as a secretary to the Judge Advocate of the division. The division had received its orders for overseas duty just prior to the signing of the Armistice.
Allred held several political posts being Assistant United States Attorney in Fort Worth, District Attorney for the 30th District (comprised of Wichita, Young and Archer Counties), Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, as well as short interim appointment as District Attorney in Stinnet, Texas and Pampa, Texas.
He spent the year of 1947 in Germany as Legal Aid to Judge Mallory B. Blair, one of the judges in the second set of the Nuremburg trials where the Attorney General and High Court Judges of the German Reich were tried.
Although Allred practiced law for a while in Wichita Falls, Stinnet and Pampa, he spent much of his life as a court reporter in South Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area before his retirement.
He was married to the former Bessie Wear of Fort Worth on August 3, 1929.
Surviving are his wife; one son, George Allred of El Paso; a sister, Mrs. Maurine Christian of Tyler, one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held at the Robertson-Harper Chapel in Fort Worth at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 31 with the Rev. William Kimbrough of the Hemphill Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was in Fort Worth's Greenwood Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were nephews, Dr. John C. Allred, Los Alamos, N.M., John R. Allred, Houston, William Wear, Austin, David Allred, Wichita Falls, Stephen Allred, Wichita Falls, and a cousin, Wilbur Cox, Richardson, Texas.
Published in the Bowie News, June 5, 1980
He was a native of Bowie and was the son of one of the local pioneer families, the late Mr. and Mrs. Renne Allred, Sr. He attended Bowie schools as well as the Bowie Commercial College.
Allred started his business career as a secretary to a railway company and later became a court reporter as well as an attorney and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas on September 6, 1920.
In World War I, Allred served as a Sergeant in the Headquarters Detachment of the 18th Division in San Antonio, working as a secretary to the Judge Advocate of the division. The division had received its orders for overseas duty just prior to the signing of the Armistice.
Allred held several political posts being Assistant United States Attorney in Fort Worth, District Attorney for the 30th District (comprised of Wichita, Young and Archer Counties), Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, as well as short interim appointment as District Attorney in Stinnet, Texas and Pampa, Texas.
He spent the year of 1947 in Germany as Legal Aid to Judge Mallory B. Blair, one of the judges in the second set of the Nuremburg trials where the Attorney General and High Court Judges of the German Reich were tried.
Although Allred practiced law for a while in Wichita Falls, Stinnet and Pampa, he spent much of his life as a court reporter in South Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area before his retirement.
He was married to the former Bessie Wear of Fort Worth on August 3, 1929.
Surviving are his wife; one son, George Allred of El Paso; a sister, Mrs. Maurine Christian of Tyler, one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held at the Robertson-Harper Chapel in Fort Worth at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 31 with the Rev. William Kimbrough of the Hemphill Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was in Fort Worth's Greenwood Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were nephews, Dr. John C. Allred, Los Alamos, N.M., John R. Allred, Houston, William Wear, Austin, David Allred, Wichita Falls, Stephen Allred, Wichita Falls, and a cousin, Wilbur Cox, Richardson, Texas.
Published in the Bowie News, June 5, 1980
Ben P. Allred, 85, died on May 29th in the Wedgewood Convalescent Home in Fort Worth following a brief illness.
He was a native of Bowie and was the son of one of the local pioneer families, the late Mr. and Mrs. Renne Allred, Sr. He attended Bowie schools as well as the Bowie Commercial College.
Allred started his business career as a secretary to a railway company and later became a court reporter as well as an attorney and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas on September 6, 1920.
In World War I, Allred served as a Sergeant in the Headquarters Detachment of the 18th Division in San Antonio, working as a secretary to the Judge Advocate of the division. The division had received its orders for overseas duty just prior to the signing of the Armistice.
Allred held several political posts being Assistant United States Attorney in Fort Worth, District Attorney for the 30th District (comprised of Wichita, Young and Archer Counties), Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, as well as short interim appointment as District Attorney in Stinnet, Texas and Pampa, Texas.
He spent the year of 1947 in Germany as Legal Aid to Judge Mallory B. Blair, one of the judges in the second set of the Nuremburg trials where the Attorney General and High Court Judges of the German Reich were tried.
Although Allred practiced law for a while in Wichita Falls, Stinnet and Pampa, he spent much of his life as a court reporter in South Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area before his retirement.
He was married to the former Bessie Wear of Fort Worth on August 3, 1929.
Surviving are his wife; one son, George Allred of El Paso; a sister, Mrs. Maurine Christian of Tyler, one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held at the Robertson-Harper Chapel in Fort Worth at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 31 with the Rev. William Kimbrough of the Hemphill Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was in Fort Worth's Greenwood Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were nephews, Dr. John C. Allred, Los Alamos, N.M., John R. Allred, Houston, William Wear, Austin, David Allred, Wichita Falls, Stephen Allred, Wichita Falls, and a cousin, Wilbur Cox, Richardson, Texas.
Published in the Bowie News, June 5, 1980
He was a native of Bowie and was the son of one of the local pioneer families, the late Mr. and Mrs. Renne Allred, Sr. He attended Bowie schools as well as the Bowie Commercial College.
Allred started his business career as a secretary to a railway company and later became a court reporter as well as an attorney and was admitted to the State Bar of Texas on September 6, 1920.
In World War I, Allred served as a Sergeant in the Headquarters Detachment of the 18th Division in San Antonio, working as a secretary to the Judge Advocate of the division. The division had received its orders for overseas duty just prior to the signing of the Armistice.
Allred held several political posts being Assistant United States Attorney in Fort Worth, District Attorney for the 30th District (comprised of Wichita, Young and Archer Counties), Assistant District Attorney in Dallas County, as well as short interim appointment as District Attorney in Stinnet, Texas and Pampa, Texas.
He spent the year of 1947 in Germany as Legal Aid to Judge Mallory B. Blair, one of the judges in the second set of the Nuremburg trials where the Attorney General and High Court Judges of the German Reich were tried.
Although Allred practiced law for a while in Wichita Falls, Stinnet and Pampa, he spent much of his life as a court reporter in South Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area before his retirement.
He was married to the former Bessie Wear of Fort Worth on August 3, 1929.
Surviving are his wife; one son, George Allred of El Paso; a sister, Mrs. Maurine Christian of Tyler, one granddaughter and numerous nieces and nephews.
Services were held at the Robertson-Harper Chapel in Fort Worth at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 31 with the Rev. William Kimbrough of the Hemphill Presbyterian Church officiating. Interment was in Fort Worth's Greenwood Memorial Park.
Pallbearers were nephews, Dr. John C. Allred, Los Alamos, N.M., John R. Allred, Houston, William Wear, Austin, David Allred, Wichita Falls, Stephen Allred, Wichita Falls, and a cousin, Wilbur Cox, Richardson, Texas.
Published in the Bowie News, June 5, 1980
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