Millie Yvonne Allott
WILMINGTON, Ill. — Ms. Millie Yvonne "Aunt Bonnie" Allott, 88, of Wilmington, Ill., passed away Monday, July 11, 2011, at Bradley Royale Nursing Center in Bradley, Ill.
Born Feb. 3, 1923, in Wilmington, Millie was a daughter of the late Albert W. Allott, Sr., and Millie (Joyner) Allott. She was raised and educated in Wilmington, and she was a graduate of Wilmington High School with the class of 1940. Millie continued her education at the University of Illinois, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Spanish.
Millie was a veteran of the United States Navy, having proudly served during World War II.
Aside from Wilmington, Millie also resided in Florida and Chicago throughout her life. Her employment included secretarial services for the law offices of Tryner-Francis and Tryner in Wilmington and C. Boughton McDogel in Chicago, as well as R.R. Donnelly Publishing Company in Chicago.
Millie was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Wilmington, charter member of the Will/Grundy Counties Genealogical Society and Mensa. She had a great love of travel, and enjoyed wonderful memories of her destinations, including Europe, Australia and the Fiji Islands.
Millie can also be remembered for her photography and reading. She also was proud to have been the second woman to earn her private pilot’s license through the University of Illinois.
Survivors include one sister, Juanita Jane (the late Robert) Reavis of Wilmington; one brother, Albert W. (Delores) Allott, Jr., of Moscow, Ill.; nine nieces and nephews, Terry (Dyna) Martin of Texas, Sandy (Dick) Wessell of Oregon, Mark (Valerie) Allott of Mapleton, Ill., Jana Allott of Peoria, Ill., Danny Martin of Nebraska, Deana (Mike) Murphy of Chillicothe, Ill., Dennis (Leinie Grace) Reavis of Wilmington, Gayle Ann Reavis of Crescent City, Ill., and Aaron Allott of Peoria; as well as numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews.
Millie was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Harold Martin, Lowell Martin, Leroy Allott and two in infancy; one sister, Mabel Scivally; and one nephew, Walter S. Scivally.
Visitation and video tribute will be held from 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 19, 2011, until the time of services at 12:30 p.m. at Freitag-Reeves & Baskerville Funeral Home, 700 East Kahler Road, Wilmington. Rev. Dr. Jay D. Carr will officiate the services.
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Interment with full military honors will follow at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill. Preferred memorials may be made as gifts in Millie's memory to the First United Methodist Church of Wilmington, 401 East Kahler Road, Wilmington, Ill.,
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Released in 1940, the film was an adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood’s broadway play. Raymond Massey gave a stunning performance as Abraham Lincoln which has remained with me, although I have not seen the film, other than Youtube excerpts, in probably 35 years. Recently I learned that the film had been released on DVD . Purchasing it, I watched it last Friday evening.
The film was certainly as powerful as I remembered it. Raymond Massey gave an eerily on target performance as Abraham Lincoln and Gene Lockhart was magnificent as Lincoln’s great antagonist, Stephen A. Douglas. However, in the intervening decades I had learned quite a bit about Lincoln and his time and several aspects of the film I found grating:
1. Historical howlers had some egregious ones:
a. Jack Armstrong, one of Lincoln’s earliest New Salem friends, is shown as offering to throw a tomato at Stephen A. Douglas during one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858. I assume it was his ghost since Armstrong died in 1854.
b. John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry which occurred in 1859 is shown as taking place before the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Senate race.
c. Lincoln is shown as receiving a military bodyguard immediately after being elected. No such protection was afforded the president-elect by President Buchanan, even though Lincoln was deluged with death threats.
d. In an affecting scene, the citizens of Springfield begin singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic as Lincoln heads off to Washington in February of 1861. The song wouldn’t be written until November of that year and not published until 1862.
2. Ann Rutledge -Mary Todd Lincoln is depicted in the film as a shrew who drives an ambitiousless Lincoln forward to fulfill his destiny very much against his will. Lincoln had quite enough ambition on his own. By most accounts the Lincolns had a loving marriage, with the usual ups and downs familiar to most married couples who stay together through good and bad times. -It is easy to see where the playwright got most of his misinformation about Lincoln: the memoir of Lincoln written by his drunken law partner William Herndon. Herndon’s work, while containing much of real historical value, is often unreliable, especially in regard to Mary Todd Lincoln who Herndon cordially loathed. He was also one of the earliest proponents of the Ann Rutledge myth.
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