Ethel Laura Allen was born July 26, 1900, in Kay County, Oklahoma, to Orville C. Hartley and Laura D. Garrett Hartley. She passed from this life Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at the Jefferson County Hospital in Waurika, Oklahoma, at the age of 101.

Ethel Laura Hartley married Jack Allen in 1926 in California. Mrs. Hartley was a homemaker.

She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three brothers and two sisters.

Services were held Friday, August 10, 2001, at 10:00 AM at the Dudley Funeral Home Chapel in Comanche, OK, with Marty Hodges officiating. Burial was in Weavers Chapel in Comanche, OK, under the direction of Dudley Funeral Home of Comanche.