The Norman Transcript
July 12, 2005
Services for J.D. Allison will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Primrose
Chapel in Norman. Visitation will be Thursday and Friday. Primrose
Funeral Service is handling arrangements.
Mr. Allison was born July 9, 1920, in Sayre, to John Marvin and
Ethel Maude Harrison Allison. He graduated from Noble High School.
He was a communication specialist in the Coast Guard aboard the
USS Sterope for three years during World War II. He attended the
University of Oklahoma where he received bachelor's and master's
degrees in education. Mr. Allison was a career educator. He taught
for 36 years and 25 of those were for Norman Public Schools. He
served as a deacon for First Baptist Church of Norman. He married
Betty Wolf Johnson Aug. 5, 1955, in Norman. The couple had three
daughters. Mr. Allison loved his children, grandchildren, gardening
and being outdoors. He also enjoyed reading, especially the Bible.
Mr. Allison was preceded in death by his parents, John and Ethel
Allison; brothers Vernon and Olson Allison; and wife Betty.
Mr. Allison is survived by his brother Carroll Allison of Noble; sisters
Thelma Wright of Norman and Dorothy Neal of Noble; daughters
Kathy Foster and husband Larry of Norman. Beth Abbott and husband
David of Lilburn, Ga., and Jalyn Burns and husband Steve of Aledo, Texas
and grandchildren Amy and Anna Abbott, Brian and Allison Burns and Joshua
and Hannah Foster.
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