Clifford Norman Allen

December 8, 1914 ~ November 19, 2007
Resided in:
Fletcher, NC
Fletcher – Clifford N. Allen, 92, of Poteat Street, passed away Monday, November 19, 2007.
A native of Henderson County, he was the son of the late Jesse Paul and Maggie Lance Allen and husband of the late Trula Worsham Allen, who died in 1999. He also was preceded in death by his son, C.N. Allen; his sister, Azzie Lee Moore and three brothers, Horace, Glenn and Wade Allen.
Mr. Allen proudly served in the U.S. Army as a Staff-Sergeant and Quartermaster in Calcutta, India during World War II, providing food for the troops. He retired from Sayles Bleachery in 1978.
Mr. Allen is survived by two daughters, Margaret Blazer and her husband, James, of Knoxville, Tenn., Nancy Holbert and her husband, Harold, of Hendersonville; a son, Kenneth Rhodes and his wife, Alline, of Fletcher and a sister, Sue Evans of Hendersonville. Also surviving are grandchildren, Glenn and Cindy Allen, Rhonda Renee Leonard, Teresa Ball, Lisa Reimers and her husband Art, and Stephanie McCarson; a great granddaughter, Heather Leonard; a great great grandson, Hayden Leonard; special friends, Yvonne Goforth and Oz McCarson and a number of nieces and nephews.
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 am Friday in the chapel of Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian conducted by Pastor Roy Waldroup. Interment will follow in Shepherd Memorial Park with military honors presented by the Henderson County Honor Guard.
The family will receive friends from 10:00 until 11:00 A.M. Friday at the funeral home and at other times will be at the home of Kenneth Rhodes, 390 Hoopers Creek Road, Fletcher.
As a great niece of Cliff.I should be ashamed for not seeing him more often. It was my loss indeed, he was a wonderful man. He out lived 3 wives. One from a heart attack early in life his sons suacide then a second wife from cancer and 3rd not to long ago. Uncle Cliff still had a smile for every one and a kind word.The world needs more men like him.
To the Rhodes family, I am Wade Allen’s daughter and would like to thank you for taking such good care of Clifford. He truly thought of you as his family.
Your Dad was a sweet and kind person, you are very lucky to have had such a father. Clifford taught me how to drive a tractor the first time I met him. I will always remember how he laughed. Vickie