Graveside services for D.K. Allen will be held at 10:00 A.M., Monday, July 27, 2020 at Roselawn Memorial Gardens under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe. Brother Danny McIlveene will officiate. Visitation will be held from 5:30 P.M. until 7:00 P.M., Sunday, July 26, 2020 at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe.
D.K. was born on November 14, 1938 in Taylorsville, Mississippi and passed away on July 23, 2020 in Monroe, Louisiana. He was a retired butcher from A & P and Piggly Wiggly. After D.K. retired he was a small engine repairman for many years. He is preceded in death by his wife, Nelda Allen; children, James Larry Allen, Joe Allen and Sonya Nyegaard; parents, Hilmer and Annie Sherman Allen, and several siblings.
D.K. is survived by his children, Dallas Allen and wife, Janet, Holley Cuppia and husband, Kevin, Crystal Buchanan and husband, Jon; sisters, Grace Rotton and Sylvia Breland; brother, Rodger Allen; ten grandchildren, Amos Allen(Amy), Elvis Nyegaard, Ben Nyegaard, Daniel Allen (Sarah), Hannah Smith (Derrick), Cheyenne Allen, Charlene Allen, Garrett Holloway (Erika), RaeAnn Allen, RyeLee Buchanan; eleven great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and other cherished family and friends.
Memorials may be made to the American Parkinson Disease Association: Hope In Progress, 135 Parkinson Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305.