Allen, Billie Marie Smith

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“I hear a voice you can not hear. Which says I must not stay. I see a hand you can not see. Which beckons me away."

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind
--- John Allston

There is more peace somewhere.
There is more peace somewhere.
I'm gonna keep on 'til I find it.
There is more peace somewhere.
--- African American Hymn

I cannot think of them as dead who walk with me no more;
along the path of life I tread they but are gone before.
--- Fredrick Lucian Hosmer

In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them.
In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them.
In the opening of buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them.
In the blueness of the sky and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.
In the rustling of leaves and in the beauty of autumn, we remember them.
In the beginning of the year and when it ends, we remember them.
When we are weary and in need of strength, we remember them.
When we are lost and sick at heart, we remember them.
When we have joys we yearn to share, we remember them.
So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us, as we remember them.
--- From Roland B. Gittelsohn

"Hold on to what is good even if it is a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe even if it is a tree which stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do even if it is a long way from here. Hold on to life even when it is easier letting go. Hold on to my hand even when I have gone away from you." ~Pueblo Blessing ~

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

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Allen, Billie Marie Smith

Posted on March 24, 2010 by mlmuchow

Aug. 22, 1929 – July 4, 2006

Billie Marie Smith Allen, 76, of Marlin, entered into rest on Tuesday, July 4, 2006. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Adams Funeral Chapel with Elders Daniel Gough and Wesley Townsend officiating. Burial will follow in the Hillcrest Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday from 6 – 8 p.m. at Adams Funeral Home.

Billie was born Aug. 22, 1929 in Marlin, to Willie Clarence and Mary Ellen Clawson Smith. She was a teacher’s aide for the Marlin Independent School District for 20 years, retiring in 1987. She was a lifelong resident of Marlin and a member of the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints where her husband is the presiding Elder. Billie married Arthur Allen on March 12, 1948 in Marlin. She loved flowers, cooking, her family and friends and was an animal lover especially to her beloved “Tova”. All who knew and loved her will miss Billie.

Survivors include her husband, Arthur P. Allen of Marlin; daughter, Sharon Allen Cantrell of Marlin; sons, Charles Allen of Austin, Mike Allen and wife Linda of Austin; brother, Welton Smith and wife Nancy of Katy; sister, Mary Beth Krupp of Trafford, PA; grandchildren, Travis and Tracy Allen, Natalie Allen, Kyle Cantrell, Sarah Whitaker and husband Brady; great-grandchildren, Kalob Sturgis, Samuel and Ellington Whitaker; nephew, Kevin Smith wife Robbie and their children Sydney and Shaffer of Katy; nieces, Ceil Smith Harris husband Steve and their children Haley and Cory, Carol Ann Johnson and daughter Krystal of Las Vegas, NV and Linda Krupp of Trafford, PA.

Pallbearers will be Travis Allen, Kyle Cantrell, Steve Harris, Kevin Smith, Brady Whitaker and Rob Ramsey.

Honorary pallbearers will be John Smock, Joe Rosas, Justin Sturgis, James Peeler and Billy Walker.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be made to: Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 204 Live Oak, Marlin, TX 76661 or the charity of your choice.

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