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- Family grouping only; not in Stalnaker Cemetery.
- Arthur Beverly Allen, retired Foreign Service Officer, born in Glenville, West Virginia, November 11, 1920, died Wednesday, July 3, 1985.
Mr. Allen resided at 10919 Preston Trails Drive, Austin.Memorial services will be held at 1:00 PM, Monday in the Davis Chapel of the Cook-Walden Funeral Home.He received his BS from Harvard in 1941; postgraduate studies were done at the University of Maryland, 1945-47; Johns Hopkins, 1951-52; student in Industrial College of Armed Forces, 1963-64. He was with the U.S. Naval Ordnance Lab in Washington, D.C., 1941-44; served as Ensign in U.S. Naval Reserve, 1944-45; U.S. Naval Ordnance Lab in Washington, D.C., 1945-47. In 1947, he became a Career Diplomat; 3rd Secretary, Beirut, Lebanon, 1947-49; Vice Consul, Algiers, Algeria, 1949-51; Arabic Language Training, Department of State, 1951-52; 2nd Secretary, Baghdad, Iraq, 1952-54, Banghazi, Libya, 1954, Tripoli, Libya, 1954-57; Tunisian Desk Officer, Department of State, 1957-59; Officer in Charge, Northeast African Affairs, 1959-61; Consul General, Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic, 1961-63, and in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1964-68; Diplomat in Residence at Southern Methodist University, 1968-69; Director, Near Eastern and South Asian Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, 1969-74. Research Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1976; Senior Sales Representative, Middle East, Western Oceanic, Inc., in Abu Dhabi, 1976-77; Research Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1977-85. He was the recipient of the Meritorious Civilian Service Award, Navy, 1945; Superior Honor Award, Department of State, 1974.Mr. Allen was the husband, of Rose Mary Foster Allen, whom he married November 23, 1943; father, of Arthur William, Robert Boyd, Sherilyn Dee, Kent Whiting; and grandfather, of five.
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1920 - 1985 (64 years)
