Please send your thoughts to the family by clicking on this link

Frances E. Allison

Frances E. Allison, 86, of Grand Island, died Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at Golden Living Center at Lakeview.

Service will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.  The Reverend Dr. Charles Peek will officiate.  Burial of ashes will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Prairie Center Cemetery north of Kearney.

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Monday at All Faiths Funeral Home.  Cremation will take place following visitation. 

Mrs. Allison was born June 14, 1923 in Buffalo County the daughter of Charles and Emma (Herzog) Hein.

Survivors are her husband, Robert; daughter and son-in-law, Debara and Michael Smith of Mandeville, LA and sisters, Rose Joyce of Salem, OR and Doris Otley of San Francisco, CA.

Other survivors are a granddaughter, Erin Smith, great-granddaughter, Michaella and nieces and nephews.

Frances moved to Kimball, NE with her family at an early age.  She graduated from Kimball High School.  She worked for the telephone company as an operator.  She married Richard Odbert on April 10, 1947.  She worked as a bookkeeper for over 40 years.

On October 16, 1976 she was united in marriage to Robert Allison.  Frances enjoyed raising flowers and crocheting.  She is a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, the churches St. Martha’s Guilt, serving as a treasurer and volunteered in other areas of the church.

Her parents; baby brother, Lawrence; brother’s John and Charles; sisters, Cecilia Mayland, Josephine Maginnis and Agnes Contant and a great-granddaughter welcomed her into heaven.