Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, Colorado, May 6, 2004
Vestil
Clyle Allen was born May 31, 1917 in a little country home, near
Martinsville, Missouri to Clarence and Dora (Booher) Allen. Vestil died
at Haxtun Hospital at the age of 86.
Vestil was raised on the
farm. Being the only son, he stared helping his dad with the farming
after school and on weekends at a very early age. He would tell about
following a walking plow behind a big team of horses, being so small,
the plow would about throw him down when turning at the end.
Vestil graduated from eighth grade at a little country school and
started attending Martinsville High School that fall. Even riding his
favorite horse the 10 miles, he decided to quit after a few months and
stay at home and help with the farm.
On July 3, 1936 Vestil took
his girlfriend Mary Madeline Young to the July 4th celebration in
Bethany. When they got to the celebration, they decided to drive over to
Albany, the next county over, and get married. The marriage was a
surprise to family and friends, but has lasted nearly 68 years. To this
union three children were born.
Times were hard, but the couple
farmed until the fall of 1957, when they sold their farm and bought a
country grocery store in Brooklyn, Missouri. Having relatives in
Colorado and liking the west, they decided to sell out and move to
Colorado in 1961, retiring in Holyoke in the fall of 1981. Vestil loved
the farm and continued to drive tractor for different farmers until
health prevented him from it.
Vestil also enjoyed making things
from wood, making a little chair for each of his grandkids and
great-grandkids. Vestil also loved to read westerns and made good use of
the Holyoke Library.
Vestil was preceded in death by his
parents; sons Norman Eugene in 1938 and Edgar Duane in 1998; an infant
sister Grace; and sister Fern and her husband Carroll McCampbell.
He is survived by his wife Mary; daughter Betty and husband Ted Roos;
daughter-in-law Mary C. Allen of Holyoke; granddaughters Patricia and
husband Kelly Lebsack of Greensboro, North Carolina, Debbie and friend
Damon Ellis of Holyoke and Shonna and husband Dan Kafka of Holyoke; step
grandchildren Linda and husband Mark Culverhouse of Spring Green,
Wisconsin, Stephan Roos of Haxtun; great grandchildren Jessica and
husband Antonio Ayala of Holyoke, Kendra Wettstein of Holyoke, Benjamin
Kafka of Holyoke and Caleb Kafka of Holyoke, Tucker Lebsack of
Greensboro, North Carolina; great great grandson Ashton Ayala of
Holyoke; great great granddaughter Azaria Calderon of Holyoke; and many
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Vestil C. Allen were
conducted Monday, May 3 at the Roberts-Baucke Funeral Chapel in Holyoke
with Rev. Roy Pfalztgraff officiating. Interment was in the Holyoke
Memorial Park.
VESTIL CLYLE ALLEN
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