Geraldean Self-Allen

GERALDEAN [DEAN] WINFREE WAS BORN JULY 15, 1920 TO MATTIE PULLUM LOVELADY AND BENJAMIN HARRISON WINFREE IN BUFFALO VALLEY, TENNESSEE

DEAN WAS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY BOTH PARENTS; HUSBANDS, THOMAS CLAYTON SELF [OF 58 YEARS] AND BISHOP JAMES ALLEN; ONE BROTHER, MEL WINFREE; TWO SISTERS, JESSIE HASCHER AND OPAL FRASIER; AND SON, WILLIAM JAMES SELF. SHE IS SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER, SHIRLEY PESSL; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, GAIL/JERRY DZIEDZIC, MELODIE/ZIGMUND STANCAVAGE, DR. MONICA PESSL-NORHEIM, ANNE/EIRIK KLAIVEN; EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND EIGHT GREAT, GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

DEAN WAS A FORTY YEAR MEMBER AND SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER OF BLUE HILL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN TENNESSEE AND A MEMBER OF NAPLES COMMUNITY CHURCH, NAPLES, FLORIDA.

DEAN IS A MEMBER OF THE WATAGA CHAPTER OF THE D.A.R. IN MEMPHIS TN. AND WROTE ARTICLES FOR THE SOUTHERN STANDARD NEWSPAPER IN MCMINNVILLE, TN. SHE WAS ALWAYS ACTIVE IN HER CHURCH AND COMMUNITY, EVER READY TO DISCUSS RELIGION AND POLITICS. 

SHE HAD A QUICK WIT, LOVED TO LAUGH, LOVED HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS, AND MOST OF ALL, LOVED HER GOD.


SERVICES AND INTERMENT WILL BE HELD IN TENNESSEE.

A MEMORIAL CELEBRATION IS BEING PLANNED IN NAPLES, FLORIDA AND WILL BE ANNOUNCED.