Bobbie (Barbara) Allen, profiled in the Kent Reporter with her husband Roland Allen after celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary on May 31, died June 24 from a stroke, according to her family.<\/p>\n
“Feeling so blessed we could celebrate their 75th so recently and remember her when she was at her best,” said daughter-in-law Jan Allen, of Kent, in an email.<\/p>\n
The family had a celebration for the couple at Farrington Court Assisted and Senior Living in Kent, where Roland and Bobbie Allen moved to 10 years ago from Bellevue.<\/p>\n
“Just about anybody you talk to says they are ready,” Bobbie Allen, 96, said during a May 27 interview with the Kent Reporter about living during the pandemic at the retirement facility. “But you don’t get to say. I know it was hard to lose our son and we are still here.”<\/p>\n
David Allen, who lived in Kent, died in 2015 at age 63 from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n
Roland and Bobbie Allen were married in 1946 in Wichita, Kansas. They moved in 1968 to the Seattle area when Boeing transferred Roland Allen to Washington from its B-47 and B-52 manufacturing plant in Kansas to work on the SST (Supersonic Transport), a program later disbanded.<\/p>\n
Survivors include her husband Roland Allen; daughter Audine (Dee) Holm, of Glendale, Arizona; daughter Debbie Allen, of Arlington, about 50 miles north of Seattle; three grandchildren and six great grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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