Mary Holdridge Allen Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Mary Holdridge (Thaxter) Allen, eighty-eight-year-old Miami, Oklahoma, resident passed away Sunday June 7, 2020. Mary was born on August 10, 1931, in Middleport, New York to Leslie and Octavia (Waters) Thaxter. She worked as a telephone operator and as a homemaker. She also loved being a nanny for several different Tulsa-area families in her later years. She was preceded in death by her parents Leslie & Octavia Thaxter and two sisters June Humphrey and Kay Yanke and one brother Clayton Thaxter. Mary is survived by three daughters, Cindy Davison and husband Jeff of Afton, Oklahoma, Barbara Newkirk and husband Jay of Loveland, Colorado, and Lisa Allen of St. Louis, Missouri; two sisters, Peggy O’Shaughnessy of Williamsville, New York, and Sandy Tripp and husband Dick of Hamburg, New York and one sister-in-law Ginny Thaxter of St. Petersburg, Florida; five grandchildren, Graeme Small, Colin Small and wife Amanda, Melanie Newkirk, Brent Davison and wife Megan, and Shane Davison and wife Jessica; and eight great grandchildren. Services are currently pending and will be announced at a later date. Notes of encouragement may be left for the family at www.brown-winters.com. Services under the direction of Brown-Winters Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Miami, Oklahoma.

Mary Holdridge Allen

August 10, 1931 - June 7, 2020