Lila M. Allison, age 95, of Point Pleasant, took her heavenly flight February 23, 2009, at her residence. She was born December 28, 1913 in Morgan County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Mahlon and Forest (Glass) Parsons.

She graduated from Ringgold High School, Ringgold, Ohio, in 1931 and was valedictorian. She was a member and faithfully attended the Wesleyan Holiness Church, in Point Pleasant. Mrs. Allison gave her heart and life to Christ in the early summer of 1931 in a tent meeting service conducted by a well known Wesleyan Methodist evangelist. As a result, in 1933 she felt the leading of the Lord to enroll in the Bible School at Point Pleasant. Following her marriage to Marshall Allison in 1937, they worked in the Christian School & Orphanage in Beulah Heights, KY, until September, 1940. They returned to Point Pleasant to labor in the Bible School and College in 1941. Through the years, Mrs. Allison felt it was her privilege to cook, can, wash, sew, clean, run errands, assist in the office or do whatever her hands found to do. She would say, "My lot has been to stay by the stuff, while others were labouring for God elsewhere." She would also say, "The lines are fallen unto me in the pleasant places; yea I have a goodly heritage."

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Marshall Allison and an infant daughter, Ruth; two infant siblings, Mae Laverne and James Parsons; two brothers, Leonard and Malcolm Parsons.

She is survived by two sisters, Verna Grubbs, of Glouster, OH, and Velma Nichols, of Malta, OH and a number of nieces and nephews. She was a: (mother in Israel – Judges 5:7B) to Patty Stiltner, of Marion, OH and Kathleen Slenker, of Point Pleasant; one adopted granddaughter, Kathy and Sammie Jeffers, of Apple Grove; three grandchildren, Bradley Siders, of Point Pleasant, Marshall Siders, of Apple Grove, Lila J. Beard and twin great-great granddaughters; Lila A. and Abbigayl Kaelan Siders, of Point Pleasant. She will be greatly missed by her family, church and school family, as well as her many friends.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, at Crow-Hussell Funeral Home, with Rev. William King, officiating. Burial will follow at Kirkland Memorial Gardens. Visitation was held at the funeral home on Tuesday evening. Lila's care has been entrusted to Crow-Hussell Funeral Home. An online guest registry is available at www.crowhussellfh.com.