Frances Louise Radford Allred

Funeral services will be held on Friday, December 20, 2024, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2001 Noccalula Road, Gadsden, AL. The body will lie in state for visitation from 11:00am until the time of service at 12:00pm. Burial will follow at Forrest Cemetery. Morgan Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Allred was born on June 26,1923 in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama. She is preceded in death by her eternal companion of 65 years, Ralph Howard Allred; her parents, George Capewell Radford and Ada Arkadelphia McNutt Radford; all of her siblings, Edith, George, Raymond, Elizabeth, Mary, Blaine, Eunice, Lois, Billy, and Pete (a nephew who was raised as her sibling); one great, great grandchild and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Allred is survived by her seven children, Camille (Danny) Browning, Mary Helen Allred, Karen (Marc) Carswell, Myra (JR) Vance, Jean (Charlie) Eubanks, Annette Pendygraft, and David (Paula) Allred; 20 grandchildren; 38 great grandchildren; and 3 great, great grandchildren.

She met and married her sweetheart of 65 years on June 9, 1945. She spent most of her life in Gadsden, AL with the exception of a year in Lehi, Utah when they were first married; and a year spent in Mt. Shasta, California where she and her husband served a full time proselytizing mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

She has served others her entire life. She served in the community as part of the Oak Park Elementary School PTA and a neighborhood representative of the American Heart Association. Most of her time she spent as a wife and mother. She also served in many calling in the church - Relief Society President,

Primary President, Young Women President, Institute and Seminary Teacher, Sunday School Teacher, Ward Librarian, Bulletin and Newsletter Editor and six years as an ordinance worker in the Birmingham, Alabama Temple. In her later years most of her service was doing indexing on the Family Search website. She indexed or reviewed almost 100,000 names!

She lived a long and full life here on this earth. We can only imagine the joy of those who had gone before her as she passed through the veil to be greeted by her loved ones. We will miss her.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Humanitarian Aid fund of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.