THOMAS MICKEY ALLEN
THOMAS MICKEY ALLEN OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, WAS BORN JULY 7, 1927, IN OLD MINES, MISSOURI, A SON OF THE LATE THOMAS AND LORETTA (BOYER) ALLEN. MICKEY DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT ST. ANTHONY'S MEDICAL CENTER ON JUNE 5, 2000, HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SEVENTY-TWO YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND TWENTY- NINE DAYS.
MICKEY WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE LATE BETTY (JENKINS) ALLEN ON JUNE 14, 1964, IN OLD MINES, MISSOURI.
MICKEY IS SURVIVED BY MANY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, HIS ASSOCIATION WITH ANTIQUE CARS BROUGHT HIM MANY SPECIAL FRIENDS AND MEMORIES. HIS LOVE FOR CARS TOOK HIM TO THE STOCKCAR TRACKS IN THE LOCAL AREA WHERE HE BECAME A WELL KNOWN FIGURE. MICKEY ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WATCHING AND PARTICIPATING IN BASEBALL AND BASKETBALL.
MICKEY AND HIS LATE WIFE BETTY HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR CHILDREN AND ALWAYS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE MOMENTS THEY HAD WITH MANY CHILDREN THAT BLESSED THEIR HOME.
VISITATION WAS HELD TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2000, FROM 6:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2000, AT 10:00 A.M. AT ST. JOACHIM CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER TED PIEPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NEW MASONIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, RAY THURMAN, BILL POLHEMUS, EDDIE JENKINS, RALPH DOYEN, MIKE THEBEAU, LARRY ALLEN, BUD GRAVES AND BILL JOHNSON.