IN LOVING MEMORY

Joe W. Allen

BORN
January 2, 1908 - Whitney, TX

PASSED AWAY
May 24, 1993, Van Alstyne, TX

SERVICES
Rhoton Funeral Home Chapel
Carrollton, Texas
May 26, 1993 2:00

OFFICIATING
Art McNeese

SPECIAL SONGS
Marching Through Georgia
PALLBEARERS
Fred Francis, Monty Wilson, Wes Allen, Rob Robertson, Chip Wilson, Allen Robertson

INTERMENT
Hilltop Memorial  Park, Carrollton, Texas
May 26, 1993

Rites today for longtime lawman Joe Allen
Services for Joe W. Allen, Carrollton 's first police chief and a longtime law enforcement officer, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rhoton Chapel in Carrollton .

Mr. Allen, 85, died of complications from cancer Monday at a nursing home in Van Alstyne.

He began his career as a patrolman for the Dallas Police

Department in 1930s, before serving as a constable in Corsicana for five years.

In 1949, he was named Carrollton 's first police chief, a position he held for 10 years.

"He wasn't a guy who just enjoyed strapping on a pistol and swaggering around. He was a problem-solver. I never heard a word against him,' said former Carrollton Mayor Jack Blanton.

Mr. Blanton remembered the new chief's stopping the mayor's mother on the road to tell her she was exceeding the speed limit.

"Mom said, "Thank you,' and jumped in her car and drove off. Joe said to me, "What was I going to do, shoot her?' People weren't used to a chief of police then.'

Mr. Allen then served as Grapevine's chief for two years and later worked as a jailer for the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department.

"He was never without a police job. He loved it. He had a sense of justice, and he was always proud of that,' said son William Allen of South Mills, N.C.

For several years, Joe Allen worked for the Dallas County Sheriff's Department between jobs.

"He had a network,' said William J. Cooper, a former police chief in Irving and Carrollton . "When I needed a man, he helped, and when he needed a man, I helped. We worked together, and I had lots of respect for him. When he left, he handed down his experience.'

Other survivors include his wife, Rene Allen of Carrollton ; three daughters, Sara Francis of Van Alstyne, Irene Wilson of Irving and Alene Robertson of Fort Worth; two sons, Joe Allen of Irene and John Allen of Van Alstyne; and two brothers, Wilson Allen and Windell Allen, both of Hillsboro.

The Dallas Morning News - May 26, 1993
Submitted by Edward  Lynn Williams

ALLEN
JOE W. JANUARY 2, 1908 - MAY 24, 1993
RENE P. NOVEMBER 8, 1909 - NOVEMBER 11, 2006

Hilltop Memorial Park, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas