Community profile: Boutique owner, ER nurse names store after her grandfathers

If Shelby Pritchett’s two grandfathers were still alive, she knows where they would likely be most days – sitting outside on Fifth Street South across from The Princess trying to get anyone who walked by to shop in their granddaughter’s boutique.

That’s why Pritchett named her store, Allen Dales, after her grandfathers.

“My two grandpas – one was named Joe Allen and the other was named Jimmy Dale – they were the two most hard working men you could ever find around,” Pritchett said. “… I know they would’ve been so proud. They would’ve been up here working. I wouldn’t have had to look for employees. I thought what better way to honor them than to name the store after them.” Read more at The Dispatch (Columbus, MS).