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- Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT)
April 7, 2005
OGDEN - Dean Kimball Allen, 82, passed away Monday, April 4, 2005 of complications from pneumonia. Dean was born August 7, 1922 in Hyrum, Utah a son of Donald James Allen and Sarah Mabel Allen. He was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dean enjoyed 59 wonderful, loving years with his wife raising their family which he loved and cared for so very much. Dean enjoyed the outdoors with his sons in their special spot up the Left-Hand of Blacksmith Fork Canyon and looked so forward to his twice a year trips up the Left-Hand with his brothers to reminisce about all the good old times they had and enjoy a plate of dads wonderful cooking.
He joined the U.S. Navy and served honorably during World War II as a gunner on the USS Shubrick in the European Theater at Normandy and Okinawa where he was disabled and he received the Purple Heart. Dean worked for Northern Utah Glass for 36 years in the Auto Glass Shop as an installer and was the Shop Manager when he retired in 1993. Dean also worked for Charley Miller Auto Body in Logan, Utah.
Surviving is his wife Jessie; three sons; two daughters, Richard D. Allen (Elaine), Roy; Jeffrey Kim Allen, Ogden; Michael Jay Allen (Kathy), Rogue River, Oregon; Sandy Gould (Lynn), Roy; Kristie Goodwin (Wayne) Clinton; 14 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers Darrell Jay Allen (Helen) Ogden; Paul Ray Allen (Earlene) Bountiful; one sister, Ruth Reeder (Russ) Hide Park.
Preceded in death are his parents, step-mother, Vernice Allen, two sisters, Margene Robison, Lenore Allen; one brother, Lloyd Allen and grandson Danny Allen.
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