Pulaski County ArArchives Obituaries.....Allen, Mary Grace Longenecker February 1, 2012
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Daughter authored obituary. It appeared on line and in several newspapers in AR and PA.
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grants permission to use it. The obit appeared online and in various 
newspapers in Arkansas and Pennsylvania. 

OBITUARY
Mary Grace ALLEN, 88, of Little Rock,AR died Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 
after a four week long illness, which took her away from the very active life 
she still led. 
Mary Grace, or "Gracie" as she was called in her youth, was the only child of 
doting parents, Walter Gingrich Longenecker and Martha Bachman Newgard 
Longenecker; and granddaughter of Harry Gingrich Longenecker & Sally Gingrich 
Longenecker on her paternal side; and granddaughter of Amos Gantz Newgard & 
Ida Amelia Bachman Newgard on her maternal side. 
She was born and raised in Annville, Pennsylvania, a small farming town 
between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, PA, in Lebanon County, where her father 
was a farmer and cattle dealer. She was very proud of her Pennsylvania Dutch 
Mennonite pioneer roots, which went back to the time of William Penn's 
charters, and she loved her small idyllic hometown. Many of the town's 
activities centered around the local music college, Lebanon Valley College, 
which from a very early age, nurtured her love of classical music and playing 
the piano. 
She graduated from Penn State University with majors in English and PE and was 
a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. It was during this time that she met her 
husband of 54 years, Henry Augustus Allen, from Texarkana, who had come east 
to attend the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School in Philadelphia, and 
later, Harvard Business School. 
After her husband returned from World War II, they moved to the New York City 
area for 10 years, and then returned to Little Rock in 1957. 
She was an avid tennis player until the age of 73, loved to read, play Bridge, 
and travel. After her children went off to school, she and her husband, for 
several decades, enjoyed numerous trips abroad with close friends. 
She was a member of Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church since 1957 and a 
member of the Country Club of Little Rock for 40 plus years. 
Her extraordinarily gentle, kind and loving nature will be sorely missed by 
her children, son Henry "Gus" Allen and wife Susan, daughter Gail Elizabeth 
Allen, and grandchildren Jack Walls Allen and Jamie Lee Allen, all residents 
of Little Rock.


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Sole author of this obituary was the daughter, who makes this submission and 
grants permission to use it. The obit appeared online and in various 
newspapers in Arkansas and Pennsylvania. 

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