{"id":468,"date":"2011-06-18T03:34:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T08:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=468"},"modified":"2011-07-03T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T09:14:37","slug":"booker-talifero-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Booker Talifero Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Booker-T.-Allen-OBIT-PIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-469\" title=\"Booker T. Allen OBIT PIC\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Booker-T.-Allen-OBIT-PIC-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Booker_Allen_program1.pdf\">Booker_Allen_program<\/a>) Allen, Booker Talifero<\/strong>&#8211; affectionately known as \u201cDeacon\u201d, peacefully left this life on Saturday, June 18, 2011.\u00a0 Booker served in the United States Navy during World War II (1943-1949).\u00a0 Until his brief illness, Deacon Allen was a faithful member of Greater First Church of God in Christ.\u00a0 Booker is preceded in death by his parents, Elder Charles and Emma Fain Allen; first wife, Lula Belle Allen; siblings: Charles Allen, Emma Pauline Parnell and Rosemary Allen; and son, Donnell Bazzell.\u00a0 Booker is survived by a loving and devoted wife, Carol Grant Allen; son, Henry Carter; step-daughter, Christina Grant; brother, William Allen; devoted niece, Roxanne Asbury and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.\u00a0 Due to renovations on the sanctuary at Greater first COGIC, the family will receive friends at Children of God Ministries Church of God in Christ at 309 Deaderick Street on Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 10:30 a.m.\u00a0 A homegoing celebration will follow at 11:00 a.m. with Dr. Donald Lee Derrickson officiating.\u00a0 Interment will be Monday, June 27, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. at the East Tennessee State Veterans\u2019 Cemetery, 5901 Lyons View Pike.\u00a0 Service will conclude with full military honors and a full dove release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=468\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>(Booker_Allen_program) Allen, Booker Talifero&#8211; affectionately known as \u201cDeacon\u201d, peacefully left this life on Saturday, June 18, 2011.\u00a0 Booker served in the United States Navy during World War II (1943-1949).\u00a0 Until his brief illness, Deacon Allen was a faithful member of Greater First Church of God in Christ.\u00a0 Booker is preceded in death by his parents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}