Beech Bluff, TN: Allen Anderson Arnold, age 89 passed away December 16, 2012 at the Jackson Madison County General Hospital.
He was born and reared in the Friendship community of Chester County the son of the late Allen A. and Edna Ross Bain Arnold. He attended school at New Friendship and graduated Pinson High School in 1940. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1944, and was in the Navy Air Corp. and served in the South Pacific and returned in 1945. He was married to Minnie Latham in 1947 and they lived in the Beech Bluff community all their married life. He farmed for many years and drove the Pet Milk and Grade A Milk Route, for about ten years. He also worked at the Chester County Highway Dept. and Quality Mfg.
He worked as supervisor for Madison Mill Work from the early 70â€s until 1984. He owned and operated the Hill Top Grocery for five years.
He was a member of the VFW Post 4844, the American Legion Post 157 and a member of the Big Springs United Methodist Church.
He is survived by a son, Allen L. Arnold of Beech Bluff and two daughters, Alice Kay Stewart of Bartlett and Susie Terry of Forney, TX, six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; three sisters, Adelle Cooper of Henderson, Leander Martin of Jackson and Inez Palmer of Huntingdon.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Minnie Latham Arnold in 2010; a grandson, Cody Stewart in 2005, a son-in-law, Randy Stewart in 2006 and three sisters, Mozelle Jones, Louise Wilhite and Eva Rogers.