With great sadness we report the passing of another of the Greatest Generation: Raymond Louis Allen of Tallahassee died March 22th 2009, a week short of his 86th birthday.
Second generation Irish and Scot, Raymond was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on March 29th, 1923 to Isabel Brash Allen and Raymond Clarence Allen.
During the Depression Ray helped support the family, including four siblings, Betty, James, Jean and Ruth -caddying at the country club and working at the shipyards in Brooklyn.
During World War II Raymond joined the Marine Corps with buddy Chuck Connors, the sports-star-turned actor; however, Chuck, too tall at 6'7", served stateside while Ray fought in several Pacific campaigns, including Guam.
After the war, stationed in the Mohave Desert in California, Ray met the beautiful Shirley Hoagland, a Lady Marine control tower operator. After discharge, they married and moved to Cortland, Ohio, Shirley's hometown, where he became a 32nd-degree Mason and worked as a butcher in the family country store.
From there Ray displayed an enormous entrepreneurial spirit which, before retiring in his 60s, would include manufacturing travel trailers and mobile homes in nine states, owning a private club and an inn, and developing real estate.
In his heyday Ray hobnobbed with the rich and famous and, as a staunch Republican, met Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Ray's life read as an extraordinary novel whose final page draws smiles past the tears. He's gone, but his shadow will long remain.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Culley's MeadowWood Timberlane Road Chapel. Family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009 in the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Salvation Army.
Published in Tallahassee Democrat on March 26, 2009
Second generation Irish and Scot, Raymond was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on March 29th, 1923 to Isabel Brash Allen and Raymond Clarence Allen.
During the Depression Ray helped support the family, including four siblings, Betty, James, Jean and Ruth -caddying at the country club and working at the shipyards in Brooklyn.
During World War II Raymond joined the Marine Corps with buddy Chuck Connors, the sports-star-turned actor; however, Chuck, too tall at 6'7", served stateside while Ray fought in several Pacific campaigns, including Guam.
After the war, stationed in the Mohave Desert in California, Ray met the beautiful Shirley Hoagland, a Lady Marine control tower operator. After discharge, they married and moved to Cortland, Ohio, Shirley's hometown, where he became a 32nd-degree Mason and worked as a butcher in the family country store.
From there Ray displayed an enormous entrepreneurial spirit which, before retiring in his 60s, would include manufacturing travel trailers and mobile homes in nine states, owning a private club and an inn, and developing real estate.
In his heyday Ray hobnobbed with the rich and famous and, as a staunch Republican, met Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Ray's life read as an extraordinary novel whose final page draws smiles past the tears. He's gone, but his shadow will long remain.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Culley's MeadowWood Timberlane Road Chapel. Family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009 in the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Salvation Army.
Published in Tallahassee Democrat on March 26, 2009
With great sadness we report the passing of another of the Greatest Generation: Raymond Louis Allen of Tallahassee died March 22th 2009, a week short of his 86th birthday.
Second generation Irish and Scot, Raymond was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on March 29th, 1923 to Isabel Brash Allen and Raymond Clarence Allen.
During the Depression Ray helped support the family, including four siblings, Betty, James, Jean and Ruth -caddying at the country club and working at the shipyards in Brooklyn.
During World War II Raymond joined the Marine Corps with buddy Chuck Connors, the sports-star-turned actor; however, Chuck, too tall at 6'7", served stateside while Ray fought in several Pacific campaigns, including Guam.
After the war, stationed in the Mohave Desert in California, Ray met the beautiful Shirley Hoagland, a Lady Marine control tower operator. After discharge, they married and moved to Cortland, Ohio, Shirley's hometown, where he became a 32nd-degree Mason and worked as a butcher in the family country store.
From there Ray displayed an enormous entrepreneurial spirit which, before retiring in his 60s, would include manufacturing travel trailers and mobile homes in nine states, owning a private club and an inn, and developing real estate.
In his heyday Ray hobnobbed with the rich and famous and, as a staunch Republican, met Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Ray's life read as an extraordinary novel whose final page draws smiles past the tears. He's gone, but his shadow will long remain.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Culley's MeadowWood Timberlane Road Chapel. Family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009 in the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Salvation Army.
Published in Tallahassee Democrat on March 26, 2009
Second generation Irish and Scot, Raymond was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on March 29th, 1923 to Isabel Brash Allen and Raymond Clarence Allen.
During the Depression Ray helped support the family, including four siblings, Betty, James, Jean and Ruth -caddying at the country club and working at the shipyards in Brooklyn.
During World War II Raymond joined the Marine Corps with buddy Chuck Connors, the sports-star-turned actor; however, Chuck, too tall at 6'7", served stateside while Ray fought in several Pacific campaigns, including Guam.
After the war, stationed in the Mohave Desert in California, Ray met the beautiful Shirley Hoagland, a Lady Marine control tower operator. After discharge, they married and moved to Cortland, Ohio, Shirley's hometown, where he became a 32nd-degree Mason and worked as a butcher in the family country store.
From there Ray displayed an enormous entrepreneurial spirit which, before retiring in his 60s, would include manufacturing travel trailers and mobile homes in nine states, owning a private club and an inn, and developing real estate.
In his heyday Ray hobnobbed with the rich and famous and, as a staunch Republican, met Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Ray's life read as an extraordinary novel whose final page draws smiles past the tears. He's gone, but his shadow will long remain.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 30th, 2009 in Culley's MeadowWood Timberlane Road Chapel. Family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 29, 2009 in the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Salvation Army.
Published in Tallahassee Democrat on March 26, 2009
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