Gordon A. Allan

Gordon A. Allan, 88, Ottawa, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the Dengel & Son Mortuary, Ottawa. He was born Sunday, March 6, 1921, at Melvern to Arthur and Mary (Talley) Allan. He grew up in Melvern. He lived in Ottawa for 45 years after his military service. He graduated from Melvern High School. He served in the U.S. Army as a Private First Class during World War II. He was a 45-year member of Calvary Baptist Church, Ottawa, and a 35-year member of the Grand Lodge of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Lodge No. 314. He worked as a machinist for Bendix Corporation in Kansas City for 31 years. He retired in 1978. He married Lucille Miner Jan. 13, 1946, at Melvern, Kansas. They shared 63 years of marriage. She survives. Survivors also include a daughter, Sondra Geiss, and her husband, Gary, Olathe; and granddaughters, Jessica Geiss, Olathe, and Christine Allan and Michelle Allan, both of Tulsa, Okla. He was preceded in death by a son, Michael Allan, Jan. 18, 1973; sisters, Ida Thompson and Alice Shuller; and a brother, Richard Allan. SERVICES: Funeral services will be held from the Dengel & Son Mortuary at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2009. IN STATE: Friends may pay their respects to Mr. Allan at the Dengel & Son Mortuary after 10:00 a.m. Friday to the service hour, where the family will meet with friends 7:00 to 8:00 Friday evening. CEMETERY: Woodlawn Cemetery, Pomona, Kansas. MEMORIALS: The family suggests memorial contributions to Calvary Baptist Church, c/o Dengel & Son Mortuary, 235 S. Hickory, Ottawa, Kansas 66067. A full obituary will be published later.