ROY EUGENE ALLEN

Roy Eugene Allen died Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001, at ParkView Regional Medical Center. He was 83.

Mr. Allen was a native of Bemidji, Minn. He had lived in Vicksburg for a number of years, operating the Vicksburg City Bus Lines for Lloyd Remick. He later purchased the company, running it until the mid-1960s.

In 1973, he joined the transportation department of Waterways Experiment Station, where he worked for 27 years. He also held several positions at All Saints’ College and assisted with the establishment of a school for special needs children of the area.

He served in the Army as a first lieutenant in World War II and was awarded two Purple Hearts and the Silver Star during the Battle of the Bulge. He served in the D-Day invasion.

Survivors include his wife, Isabelle N. Allen of Vicksburg; two daughters, Sandra Duffy of Braintree, Mass., and Nancy Allen of Vicksburg; a brother, Myles Allen of Bemidji; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Services with military honors will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Cross Cemetery in Bemidji.

Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at Fisher-Riles Funeral Home.

WILLIAM GARNER BEANLAND

RIDGELAND William Garner Beanland died Friday, Oct. 26, 2001, at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland. He was 73.

Born in Jackson, Mr. Beanland was a senior partner with Brunini Law Firm in Vicksburg. He spent the first 12 years of his life in Cameroon, West Africa with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Gayle Beanland, who were Presbyterian missionaries.

A graduate of the University of Mississippi Law School, he was employed with the War Claims Commission in Washington, D.C., and served with the Air Force J.A.G. before returning to Mississippi to practice law for 40 years.

Mr. Beanland was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce and Young Man of the Year by the Mississippi Chamber of Commerce. He was president of the Y’s Men Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Country Club and the Warren County Bar Association. He was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Mississippi State Bar and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Bar Foundation.

He was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Vicksburg, where he was an elder, Sunday school teacher and a choir member.

He is survived by his wife, Martha Spencer Beanland of Ridgeland; his daughter, Lillian Rush of Margate, Fla.; his son, William S. Beanland of Ridgeland; his brother, the Rev. Gayle Beanland of Duarte, Calif.; and two granddaughters, Alyssa Rush and Shelby Rush, both of Margate, Fla.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church in Oxford with the Revs. Sam Marshall and Gayle Beanland officiating. Burial will follow at Oxford Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Waller Funeral Home

Visitation will be from 11:30 a.m. until the service Monday at the church.

Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1501 Cherry St., Vicksburg, Miss. 39180; or to the First Presbyterian Church, 924 Van Buren Ave., Oxford, Miss. 38655.

HELEN BODRON

Helen Bodron died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, at ParkView Regional Medical Center. She was 80.

A lifelong resident of Vicksburg, Miss Bodron was the daughter of the late Wadie G. and Sarah Abraham Bodron. She was employed with Sunflower food store for more than 40 years. She was a member of the American Red Cross and a charter member of the Salvation Army and St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, where she was a member of the Ladies of St. George.

Survivors include three brothers, George Bodron of Vicksburg, Allen Bodron of Memphis and John Albert Bodron of Biloxi; three nieces, Dianne Adkins of Johnson City, Tenn., Sarah Allday of Ridgeland and Jeanne Bodron of Brandon; three nephews, Robert Bodron of Atlanta, Jim Bodron of Germantown, Tenn., and John Allen Bodron of Paducah, Ky.; five grand-nieces; five grand-nephews; and other relatives.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church with Father Peter Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Fisher-Riles Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 1 until the service at the church.

Pallbearers will be Claude Adkins, Douglas Nasif, John Allen Bodron, Ellis Nasif, Jim Bodron, John A. Thomason III, Bob Bodron and Ray Bailey.

Honorary pallbearers will be Bobby Abraham, George E. Abraham, William O. Miller Jr., Smokey Burgess, Mildred Nasif, Lilly Abraham, Eloise Bodron, Flora Ellis, Mary Fedell, Sara Ann Hoxie, Naomi Caldwell and Katie Larry.

UNA MILDRED VAN ALLEN SMITH

SEATTLE, Wash. Una Mildred Van Allen Smith died Friday, Oct. 19, 2001, in Everett, Wash. She was 89.

Mrs. Smith was born in Vicksburg. She attended the University of Nebraska. She lived in Florida for several years before moving to San Francisco and then to Hawthorne, Nev. She worked as a bookkeeper most of her life and owned an employment agency in Reno for several years. She moved to the Washington state area in 1980.

She is survived by two daughters, Linda Parks and Shirley Holden, both of Reno; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Bleitz Funeral Home in Seattle has charge of the arrangements.