Charles Kring Allen was married 3 times:
#1 Dorothy Barbara Case on May 29, 1930 (Source: Marriage Announcement in Moberly Monitor Missouri, newspaper, dated May 30, 1930). Later she married Arthur H. Sweney.
#2 Edith Marie Scott on December 1939 (1919-1977)
#3 Doris Hansen (nee: Goodner) on December 26, 1977,in Los Angeles County, California (Source: California Marriage Index). Her first marriage was to George Andrew Hansen (1913-1965)
If you would be so kind as to add the following information regarding Rev. Kring Allen taken from Wikipedia regarding the McCarty Memorial Christian Church which is on the United States National Registry of Historic Places.
". . . .The Rev. Kring Allen was credited with successfully integrating the McCarty Church. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Allen, who had been the pastor at McCarty since 1954, noted: "Our neighborhood is 85% Negro. So's our church, I would guess, although I don't know. You lose your color sense when you stop thinking about it. I lost mine." When Allen arrived, the church's membership had dropped to 370 members down from 1,500 in the 1930's. McCarty Church in 1954 was a faltering congregation plagued by urban problems in a changing neighborhood. Allen brought plans that were considered "radical" at the time. He recalled: "I came with the understanding with my board here that the church was going to integrate or I wouldn't stay . . . . When some of the board wanted to go in a segregated way, I said: "I won't go that road and if you go it, you go without me." I spent most of the first 6 months in the public library, reading up on Negro history. We get brainwashed. We downgrade the Negro and upgrade the white. We fix our stereotypes. That's the trouble with most white people like me. I wrote a lot of churches asking for advice. The Riverside church in New York. . . . told me to "go slow or you'll tear your church to pieces." But I didn't want to go slow. Things were difficult at first, but Allen recalled that things started to gel when he took 70 parishioners, black and white, to a camp in the San Bernardino mountains where they "housed together, worked together, and studied together." They came back from the camp as "a completely integrated nucleus." Allen became an advocate for integration of churches, noting: "Integration is basic to the Gospel . . . The church is either going to pass through this fire, or the church has had it. There can be no more segregated churches. The whole movement of history is against it."
Now a little history about Rev. Kring Allen's career:
He was a minister for Big Springs Christian Church in Rocheport, Howard County, Missouri, then pastored at Boonville Christian Church in Cooper County, Missouri for many years. In 1940, he and his 2nd wife, Edith Marie Scott Allen, and two children, from his first marriage to Dorothy Case; John Kring Allen and Lawrence Allen were living in Rocky Ford, Colorado. He eventually lived in Buellton, California with his 3rd wife, Doris Goodner Allen, and when he retired he and Doris lived in Rosemead, California.
#1 Dorothy Barbara Case on May 29, 1930 (Source: Marriage Announcement in Moberly Monitor Missouri, newspaper, dated May 30, 1930). Later she married Arthur H. Sweney.
#2 Edith Marie Scott on December 1939 (1919-1977)
#3 Doris Hansen (nee: Goodner) on December 26, 1977,in Los Angeles County, California (Source: California Marriage Index). Her first marriage was to George Andrew Hansen (1913-1965)
If you would be so kind as to add the following information regarding Rev. Kring Allen taken from Wikipedia regarding the McCarty Memorial Christian Church which is on the United States National Registry of Historic Places.
". . . .The Rev. Kring Allen was credited with successfully integrating the McCarty Church. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Allen, who had been the pastor at McCarty since 1954, noted: "Our neighborhood is 85% Negro. So's our church, I would guess, although I don't know. You lose your color sense when you stop thinking about it. I lost mine." When Allen arrived, the church's membership had dropped to 370 members down from 1,500 in the 1930's. McCarty Church in 1954 was a faltering congregation plagued by urban problems in a changing neighborhood. Allen brought plans that were considered "radical" at the time. He recalled: "I came with the understanding with my board here that the church was going to integrate or I wouldn't stay . . . . When some of the board wanted to go in a segregated way, I said: "I won't go that road and if you go it, you go without me." I spent most of the first 6 months in the public library, reading up on Negro history. We get brainwashed. We downgrade the Negro and upgrade the white. We fix our stereotypes. That's the trouble with most white people like me. I wrote a lot of churches asking for advice. The Riverside church in New York. . . . told me to "go slow or you'll tear your church to pieces." But I didn't want to go slow. Things were difficult at first, but Allen recalled that things started to gel when he took 70 parishioners, black and white, to a camp in the San Bernardino mountains where they "housed together, worked together, and studied together." They came back from the camp as "a completely integrated nucleus." Allen became an advocate for integration of churches, noting: "Integration is basic to the Gospel . . . The church is either going to pass through this fire, or the church has had it. There can be no more segregated churches. The whole movement of history is against it."
Now a little history about Rev. Kring Allen's career:
He was a minister for Big Springs Christian Church in Rocheport, Howard County, Missouri, then pastored at Boonville Christian Church in Cooper County, Missouri for many years. In 1940, he and his 2nd wife, Edith Marie Scott Allen, and two children, from his first marriage to Dorothy Case; John Kring Allen and Lawrence Allen were living in Rocky Ford, Colorado. He eventually lived in Buellton, California with his 3rd wife, Doris Goodner Allen, and when he retired he and Doris lived in Rosemead, California.
Charles Kring Allen was married 3 times:
#1 Dorothy Barbara Case on May 29, 1930 (Source: Marriage Announcement in Moberly Monitor Missouri, newspaper, dated May 30, 1930). Later she married Arthur H. Sweney.
#2 Edith Marie Scott on December 1939 (1919-1977)
#3 Doris Hansen (nee: Goodner) on December 26, 1977,in Los Angeles County, California (Source: California Marriage Index). Her first marriage was to George Andrew Hansen (1913-1965)
If you would be so kind as to add the following information regarding Rev. Kring Allen taken from Wikipedia regarding the McCarty Memorial Christian Church which is on the United States National Registry of Historic Places.
". . . .The Rev. Kring Allen was credited with successfully integrating the McCarty Church. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Allen, who had been the pastor at McCarty since 1954, noted: "Our neighborhood is 85% Negro. So's our church, I would guess, although I don't know. You lose your color sense when you stop thinking about it. I lost mine." When Allen arrived, the church's membership had dropped to 370 members down from 1,500 in the 1930's. McCarty Church in 1954 was a faltering congregation plagued by urban problems in a changing neighborhood. Allen brought plans that were considered "radical" at the time. He recalled: "I came with the understanding with my board here that the church was going to integrate or I wouldn't stay . . . . When some of the board wanted to go in a segregated way, I said: "I won't go that road and if you go it, you go without me." I spent most of the first 6 months in the public library, reading up on Negro history. We get brainwashed. We downgrade the Negro and upgrade the white. We fix our stereotypes. That's the trouble with most white people like me. I wrote a lot of churches asking for advice. The Riverside church in New York. . . . told me to "go slow or you'll tear your church to pieces." But I didn't want to go slow. Things were difficult at first, but Allen recalled that things started to gel when he took 70 parishioners, black and white, to a camp in the San Bernardino mountains where they "housed together, worked together, and studied together." They came back from the camp as "a completely integrated nucleus." Allen became an advocate for integration of churches, noting: "Integration is basic to the Gospel . . . The church is either going to pass through this fire, or the church has had it. There can be no more segregated churches. The whole movement of history is against it."
Now a little history about Rev. Kring Allen's career:
He was a minister for Big Springs Christian Church in Rocheport, Howard County, Missouri, then pastored at Boonville Christian Church in Cooper County, Missouri for many years. In 1940, he and his 2nd wife, Edith Marie Scott Allen, and two children, from his first marriage to Dorothy Case; John Kring Allen and Lawrence Allen were living in Rocky Ford, Colorado. He eventually lived in Buellton, California with his 3rd wife, Doris Goodner Allen, and when he retired he and Doris lived in Rosemead, California.
#1 Dorothy Barbara Case on May 29, 1930 (Source: Marriage Announcement in Moberly Monitor Missouri, newspaper, dated May 30, 1930). Later she married Arthur H. Sweney.
#2 Edith Marie Scott on December 1939 (1919-1977)
#3 Doris Hansen (nee: Goodner) on December 26, 1977,in Los Angeles County, California (Source: California Marriage Index). Her first marriage was to George Andrew Hansen (1913-1965)
If you would be so kind as to add the following information regarding Rev. Kring Allen taken from Wikipedia regarding the McCarty Memorial Christian Church which is on the United States National Registry of Historic Places.
". . . .The Rev. Kring Allen was credited with successfully integrating the McCarty Church. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times in 1967, Allen, who had been the pastor at McCarty since 1954, noted: "Our neighborhood is 85% Negro. So's our church, I would guess, although I don't know. You lose your color sense when you stop thinking about it. I lost mine." When Allen arrived, the church's membership had dropped to 370 members down from 1,500 in the 1930's. McCarty Church in 1954 was a faltering congregation plagued by urban problems in a changing neighborhood. Allen brought plans that were considered "radical" at the time. He recalled: "I came with the understanding with my board here that the church was going to integrate or I wouldn't stay . . . . When some of the board wanted to go in a segregated way, I said: "I won't go that road and if you go it, you go without me." I spent most of the first 6 months in the public library, reading up on Negro history. We get brainwashed. We downgrade the Negro and upgrade the white. We fix our stereotypes. That's the trouble with most white people like me. I wrote a lot of churches asking for advice. The Riverside church in New York. . . . told me to "go slow or you'll tear your church to pieces." But I didn't want to go slow. Things were difficult at first, but Allen recalled that things started to gel when he took 70 parishioners, black and white, to a camp in the San Bernardino mountains where they "housed together, worked together, and studied together." They came back from the camp as "a completely integrated nucleus." Allen became an advocate for integration of churches, noting: "Integration is basic to the Gospel . . . The church is either going to pass through this fire, or the church has had it. There can be no more segregated churches. The whole movement of history is against it."
Now a little history about Rev. Kring Allen's career:
He was a minister for Big Springs Christian Church in Rocheport, Howard County, Missouri, then pastored at Boonville Christian Church in Cooper County, Missouri for many years. In 1940, he and his 2nd wife, Edith Marie Scott Allen, and two children, from his first marriage to Dorothy Case; John Kring Allen and Lawrence Allen were living in Rocky Ford, Colorado. He eventually lived in Buellton, California with his 3rd wife, Doris Goodner Allen, and when he retired he and Doris lived in Rosemead, California.
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