Considered by her late husband to be an Angel on Earth, Mary Lee (Holloway) Allen, age 84,

daughter of Carmel and Bernice (Fletcher) Holloway, was born October 9, 1941 and grew up in

Tulsa, Oklahoma. She passed away September 8, 2026 in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Mary Lee graduated from Will Rogers High School in 1959. She graduated from Oklahoma

Baptist University (OBU) in 1963 where her major was Elementary Education and her minor was

in Art.

While at OBU, Mary Lee married Robert L. (Bob) Allen on June 6, 1961 at Sequoyah Baptist

Church in Tulsa. They both graduated from OBU in 1963 and Mary Lee began teaching

elementary school in Shawnee, Oklahoma. After a couple of years, they moved to New York

where she taught school in Mamaroneck and White Plains, Westchester County, New York.

When they moved back to Oklahoma in 1967, she taught school in El Reno, Banner, and

Western Heights School District in Oklahoma City. She taught school for a total of 35 years

before she retired.

Teaching was one of her great loves; another love was working on her family's genealogy. She

exhibited as much interest in her husband's ancestors as she did her own. She worked

endless hours in documenting more than ten thousand names and recorded them all in Family

Tree Maker and in LDS Search. She had a sharp mind and was a genealogical sleuth. Her

detective work would have made Scotland Yard envious.

She is survived by her sister, Nancy Henry, Tulsa; four children and their spouses: son Douglas

Ray and Cheryl Allen, Tuttle; son David Corliss and Lesley Allen, Austin, Texas; daughter April

Katherine Allen Parady and JD Parady, Salt Lake City, Utah; and son Steven Scott and Megan

Allen, Yukon; sixteen loving grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren, and many nieces

and nephews. She will be greatly missed.

A public viewing will be held on Wednesday, September 16, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm with the

family being present from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Mercer Adams Funeral Home, 3925 North

Asbury Avenue, Bethany, OK 73008.

Memorial services will be held at the LDS Church 12020 North Mustang Road, Yukon, OK on

Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 4:00 pm. The burial and graveside service will be at the El

Reno Cemetery on Friday, Sept 18, 2026 at 11:00 am under the direction of Mercer Adams

Funeral Services.