01/01/1972
Name: Ruby Josephine (Cathcart) Allen
Birth: Nov. 10, 1896 – Fonda, Pocahontas County, Iowa
Death: Jan. 1, 1972 – Marion, Marion County, Kansas
Father: Jesse Emerson Cathcart (1867 – 1936)
Mother: Minnie Denise Mark Cathcart (1869 – 1956)
Spouse: Walter Earl Allen (1892 – 1967)
Friends here received word of the death of Mrs. Walter Allen, the former Ruby Josephine Cathcart, on Jan. 1, 1972 at the home of her daughter, Carol Powell, in New Berlin Wis.
Mrs. Allen was a member of KHS Class of 1918.
She was united in marriage to Walter Earl Allen on June 14, 1918, in Harvey County, Kansas.
Ruby was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse (Emerson) Cathcart, Formerly of Marion County. Mr. Allen, son of Mrs. Ida Allen.
Daughters:
1. Mary Josephine Allen (Arthur Klein) of Fort Collins, Colo (b.1919 – d.2000)
2. Coleen Jordan of Fort Collins
3. Carol Powell of New Berlin, Wis.
Sons:
1. Dwight Allen of Salina
2. Kerns Allen
Siblings:
1. John MuMunn Cathcart (1888 – 1978)
2. Fay Cathcart Wetter (1890 – 1978)
3. Mark Rosco Cathcart (1895 – 1958)
4. Ruby Josephine Cathcart Allen (1896 – 1972)
5. Ruth Cathcart Goodman (1898 – 1991)
6. William G Cathcart (1905 – 1979)
7. Wright Emerson Cathcart (1907 – 1963)
8. Howard Edward Cathcart (1913 – 1959)
Burial: Marion Cemetery, Marion, Marion County, Kansas