Sussex County, Delaware - Obits: from The Cape Gazette
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                       Charles Clarence Allen Jr.

*   Charles Clarence Allen Jr. of Seaford died of congestive heart failure
Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003, in Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. He was 84.
    He was born in Seaford, the son of the late Charles Clarence Allen Sr. and
Nellie Grace Matthews Allen.
    He graduated from Seaford High School in the class of 1936, and attended the
University of Delaware on a football scholarship, graduating in 1940.
    He was the former president of Allen's Hatchery Inc.
    He enjoyed traveling and took a special interest in his community and state.
He was very philanthropic toward a variety of interests, supporting the
University of Delaware and the Biotechnology Center, which was named after him.
He supported the Delaware Community Foundation, Sussex County CHEER, Nanticoke
Little League and the Seaford Historical Society.
    He was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity, St. John's United Methodist Church
in Seaford and St. Matthew's By the Sea United Methodist Church in Fenwick
Island. He was active in the University of Delaware Alumni Association and was a
member of the Seaford Lions Club and the Seaford Golf and Country Club.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Elizabeth
Huston Allen, in 1987; and a brother, John Reuben Allen Sr., in March 2002.
    He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Charles C. Allen III and
Barbara Allen of Seaford; two daughters and a son-in-law, Julia A. Hopkins of
Raleigh, N.C., and Jenny A. and Frank L. Stulz of Fort Wayne, Ind.; a brother,
Warren L. Allen of Seaford; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
    Services will be 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, in St. John's United Methodist
Church, Pine and Poplar streets, Seaford, where friends may call two hours
earlier. The Rev. David H. Humphrey and the Rev. George Godfrey will officiate.
Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Seaford.
    Instead of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Nellie
G. Allen Curiosity Shop, c/o the Soroptimist Service Foundation, P.O. Box 826,
Seaford, De. 19973. Arrangements by Watson-Yates Funeral Home, Seaford.
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                       Carrie Jane Mitchell

*   Carrie Jane Mitchell of Lewes, formerly of Dagsboro, died Tuesday, Jan. 7,
2000, at Lewes Convalescent Center. She was 77.
    Ms. Mitchell was born in Snow Hill, N.C., daughter of the late Luther and
Julia Atkinson Best. She was a homemaker.
    She was a member of Trinity Holiness Church in Frankford, where she served
the church as a mother and missionary.
    She is survived by her husband of 61 years, James H. Mitchell Sr.; three
sons, James H. Mitchell Jr. of Somerset, Pa., Arthur Lee Mitchell of Salisbury,
and Luther T. Mitchell of Selbyville; eight daughters, Mary L. Davis of Milton,
Carolyn J. Cannon of Georgetown, Margaret S. Hopkins of Millsboro, Carrie M.
Mitchell of Selbyville, Beverly M. Rickards of Dover, Hazel A. Jenkins of
Bridgeville, Finisha T. Mitchell-Hopkins of Felton and Faith N. Mitchell of
Wilmington; three sisters, Julia Dickens and Hazel Carter, both of Georgetown,
and Mary Brown of New Haven, Conn.; 25 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren;
and a great-great grandson.
    Services will be 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11, in St. John's Baptist Church,
Mt. Joy, Millsboro, where friends may call one hour earlier. Burial will be in
Zoar Golden Acres Cemetery, Selbyville. Arrangements by Watson Funeral Home,
Millsboro.
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