10/29/2025
🎉 Happy Birthday, Evelyn Allen! 🎉
Help us celebrate this wonderful lady today! Her family wrote a beautiful bio sharing her story, favorite memories, and the love that surrounds her. 💖
Evelyn Reed Allen was born in Laurel, MS in 1933 on October 29th. Evelyn was the daughter of Charles Wesley Reed and Mildred Reed. She was the youngest of 4 children.
Evelyn graduated from George S. Gardiner High School in Laurel in 1950. Following graduation she went to work for the local Gas Company in the office as a bookkeeper. In 1952 she met the love of her life, Charlie Allen of Ellisville, MS and they conducted a long-distance courtship as Charlie was in the Air Force stationed in El Paso, TX.
Evelyn married Charlie on October 6, 1956, in Laurel, MS at Evelyn’s home. After the wedding Evelyn and Charlie moved to Montgomery, AL where Evelyn was a homemaker. While in Montgomery they welcomed their first child, a son who they named Charles Reed Allen. Four years later they welcomed a daughter, Mildred (Mickie) Evelyn Allen. Once her kids started school, Evelyn was very involved with the PTA and active with her local Church, Asbury United Methodist Church.
In 1969 Evelyn and Charlie moved to Shreveport, LA for a short 3 months as Charlie had taken a new job with Delta Air Lines. Delta then transferred Charlie to Jackson, MS where Evelyn and Charlie bought a house in Pearl, MS. After Evelyn’s children graduated from high school, Evelyn went back to work part time at Christ United Methodist where she worked for a number of years. She also volunteered weekly at her church helping the secretary and working in the food pantry and she also volunteered at the Mississippi Food Network. Following Charlie’s retirement Evelyn and Charlie loved to ride on Charlie’s motorcycle. They took many long-distance road trips with Evelyn on the back of Charlie’s Gold Wing. Evelyn loved to cut grass and she kept an immaculate yard well into her 80’s until age just prevented her from working in the yard.
Along with the 2 children, Evelyn has 2 grandchildren, a granddaughter, Christie Marie Allen who lives in Jackson, MS and a grandson, Allen Dilley who lives in Olive Branch, MS.
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