MaryBeth Mannies Allen

Funeral services celebrating the life of MaryBeth Mannies Allen will be held at 12:00 p.m., Monday, August 19, 2024 at Rose-Neath Chapel, 943 Polk Street, Mansfield, Louisiana. Interment will follow at Highland Cemetery, Mansfield, Louisiana. Visitation will be held from 10:30 a.m. until time of service on Monday, August 19, 2024 at the funeral home. 

MaryBeth Mannies Allen was born on August 6, 1981, and joined her parents in heaven on August 16, 2024. She was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Benny and Jena Mannies and came home to her brother Hunter Lee Mannies days later. 

MaryBeth, before becoming a stay-at-home mother, was a business manager for her brother, in nightclubs, food service and real estate. She owned part of her legacy estate, Sunset Plantation, and retired to stay home and raise her two beautiful children. She was creative and outgoing and was a Zeta at Centenary College. MaryBeth had a love of all things wildlife and for a while was an avid hunter that easily rivaled most men. 

She is preceded in death by her parents Benny and Jena Mannies as well as her grandparents Charles C. Hunter and Bobbie Hunter, both politicians and pillars of the community.

She leaves behind her husband, Brad; her two beautiful children, Benny Cash Allen and Annabelle Presley Allen; her brother, Hunter Lee Mannies and a host of cousins, nieces and nephews. 

Pastor and family friend, Dean Register, will be officiating the service. Country music artist, Sarah Hobbs, will be providing the music along with her lifelong friend Justin Mahaffey.

Honoring MaryBeth as pallbearers will be Bookie (Joel Granger II), Justin Mahaffey, Kenny Britt, Luke Allen, Steven (Sims) Brown, Sheriff Jayson Richardson, and Cooper Register.

The family would like to thank the doctors and nurses of Christus Highland Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Flowers are provided by her close friend, The Flower Shop by Brittany. The burial is being handled by close friends Rodriguez Ross and his staff. 

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital, First Baptist Church of Mansfield, or First United Methodist of Mansfield, Louisiana.