The community is mourning the loss of Bishop Richard Allmon Senior of Full Gospel United Pentecostal Church on Mickens Road . He died Sunday April 15 after preaching his last sermon entitled "I've done enough already." 

He was 57 years old.

“He literally preached his own eulogy and we didn’t know it,” his son Raymond Allmon tells WAFB.

Family members say after preaching his sermon, he sat down on the front row with his wife, told her his legs were hurting, and instructed her to call an ambulance.  He died later at the hospital from a blood clot.

Rev. Allmon had been pastoring the church for 30 years. He and his wife Lois had 12 children and they had been married for nearly 40 years.  Family members say he was the picture of health, jogging about eight miles a day.

His son Rev. Ricky Allmon says he father died with a big smile on his face.

“He looked around the doctor to my sister Rachel and says “I’m gone,” with a big smile on his face and then turned toward my mother,” Rev. Ricky said. “I didn’t know a greater human being or a greater man.”
 

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A beneift concert will be held in honor of Nathan Crowson, a former WAFB employee who was killed in January while riding his bicycle on Perkins Road.

Billy Callaway is organizing the effort. His band, Zenbilly, along with two others -- Bedlam Ville Triflers and Flatbed Honeymoon-- will perform at the Red Star, 222 Laurel Street downtown, on Friday, April 20 starting at 10 p.m.

Donations will be accepted at the door and given to Crowson's five-year-old daughter Katherine Coburn. A fund has been setup for her at E Federal Credit Union.

In addition, B.R.A.S.S. (Baton Rouge Advocates for Safe Streets) will also be holding a bike rally on that day riding from Mid City to Red Star.

For more information, call Callaway at (225) 772-2356.

In the wake of her tryout as a placekicker for the LSU Football team in March, former LSU Soccer goalkeeper Mo Isom will appear as an in-studio guest on Tuesday’s episode (April 3) of  the Ellen DeGeneres Show airing at 4 p.m. in Baton Rouge.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show airs each weekday on NBC affiliates across the country. 

The website for show previews the episode by saying, “Then, an incredible female athlete, Mo Isom, challenged the norm by trying out to be a kicker for the LSU Football team. Her amazing story of tragedy and triumph, as well as her remarkable talent will inspire you to take on the world!”