{"id":26779,"date":"2017-02-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/darlene-joyce-allen\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:05:11","slug":"darlene-joyce-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/obituaries\/darlene-joyce-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"DARLENE JOYCE ALLEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darlene Joyce Allen was born on January 13, 1933 in Loup City, Nebraska, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Darlene loved to sing, she loved music and was a pianist, Blue Bird and Camp Fire Leader, Teacher, business owner, Wedding Coordinator, a member of the First Christian Church of Kent, volunteer for the Homeless, and a people-person who loved unconditionally. Darlene delighted all with her creativity of holiday d&#233;cor.<\/p>\n<p>Darlene was preceded in death by two of her children: David Henry Allen, 1963 and Rebecca &ldquo;Becky&rdquo; Coleman, 2000. She is survived by her loving children Tana M. Daniel &#038; wife Nina Bus of Bothell, Janet Schumacher of Enumclaw, sons Scott Allen of Marysville, and Doug Allen &#038; wife Sherri of Kent, 7 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Darlene has two sisters: June Marie Gibson, Louisville, KY, and Jackie Lee Richards, Lynnwood, WA.<\/p>\n<p>Services will be held on March 4, 2017 at the First Christian Church of Kent 11717 SE 240th St. Kent, WA 98030 from 2pm-6 pm. Any and all are invited to attend. If you would like to make a donation to her charity of choice, please contact the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darlene Joyce Allen was born on January 13, 1933 in Loup City, Nebraska, passed away peacefully on February 14, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}