Allene Logan Keener

Allene Logan Keener, age 96, passed away Thursday, October 25, 2012 at The Meadows. Funeral service will be at 11:00AM, Monday, October 29, 2012 at First Baptist Church of Gatesville with Ben Winder officiating. Burial will follow at Restland Cemetery. Visitation will be 2:00 – 4:00PM Sunday at Scott’s Funeral Home. Allene was born April 27, 1916 in Coryell County and reared in Gatesville, Texas area. She was the daughter of Henry Grady Logan and Ruby Nora Hackney Logan, who were also born and raised in Coryell County. She married Walter William Keener, the son of Mashe Augusta Keener and Betty Cordia Inman Keener of Coryell County, on November 28, 1934 in the Gatesville Courthouse. Her husband worked in the oil field industry as a roughneck, driller and tool pusher and also in construction as a millwright. They lived along the Texas Gulf Coast, South Louisiana, West Texas and in many other locations throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Allene and Walter had two children, Kenneth, born in 1935 in Texas City, Texas and Aneta, born in 1939 in Brownsville, Texas. Allene worked in retail sales for a number of years and in the 1950’s, she graduated from nursing school. For several years she worked in hospital intensive care units and in 1955 she was named “Nurse of the Year” at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas. She retired from nursing about 1965. She was active in Baptist church activities, taught Sunday school and was at one time, the Superintendent of the Beginners Department at the First Baptist Church in Kermit, Texas. Her great-great-grandfather, Hillary Logan, and great-grandfather, James Martin Logan, were founders and charter members of the First Baptist Church of Gatesville, Texas. James Martin Logan also was a member of a Texas Ranger unit that was formed from the Gatesville and Waco areas circa the Civil War period. A few years after her husband died she moved back to Gatesville, Texas from Midland, Texas and returned to her roots. She again joined the First Baptist Church in Gatesville where she was saved as a young girl. She lived the past few years at “The Oaks” and “The Meadows” in Gatesville where she found some of her relatives and friends from the past both working and living there. Some of her friends there were fellow classmates from her early school years in Coryell County. As a young woman, Allene went to many of the dances and social events in Gatesville and Coryell County and it was at one of these dances that she met her future husband. She and Walter loved to dance the schottische. She liked Mexican food, especially tacos and making enchiladas and loved to go fishing, can, make jelly, and oil paint. She also loved to travel, see the country, and visit friends and relatives. She was preceded in death by her mother in 1971; father in 1973; husband, Walter, in 1993; adopted son, David Keener in 1997; brother, Tom Logan in 2002; sister, Callie Logan Wise in 2012; and grandson, Tom Askins in 2012. Allene is survived by her son, Kenneth Keener and wife, Janiece of Granbury, Texas; daughter, Aneta Askins and husband, Lee of Kaufman, Texas; brother, Billy Logan of Gatesville, Texas; 6 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; numerous great-great-grandchildren, as well as other family members. Allene’s family wishes to thank Dr. Darren Hamm and all of the staff at the Meadows “C” wing, especially Connie Snyder and her associates for making her last few years secure, comfortable, and special for her. Memorials may be made to Coryell Memorial Health Foundation, 1507 W. Main, Gatesville, Texas 76528.