Patricia Eileen Powers Allen of Davis died peacefully on April 14, 2016 at her home in Seal Beach. She was 91 years old.
Allen, Pat
Pat was born in Rosedale, Pa., on June 13, 1924. While attending college at UC Berkeley in 1943 — where she majored and excelled in the study of English literature — she met Thomas L. Allen. They were married on July 15, 1944, when they were both 20 years old. Their marriage lasted through more than 70 years of adventures, and gave them both great happiness.
At the end of World War II (in which Tom served as a junior officer on a submarine in the Pacific), they moved to Pasadena, where Tom earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Caltech. In 1950, the couple moved to Davis, where Tom was a member of the chemistry department faculty until his retirement in 1994. They lived in Davis for more than 65 years, and raised four children there.
In 1968, Pat began working as a volunteer for Suicide Prevention of Yolo County. Within a few years, the organization asked her to become its volunteer director. She was tireless in her efforts to build the organization, and when she finally stepped down in 1979, a full-time paid director was brought in to replace her. For her work with Suicide Prevention, the city of Davis awarded her the Brinley Award in 1978.
Pat Allen loved literature, music and the theater, and took up portrait painting in her 50s, working primarily in chalk pastels. She shared a love of the wilderness and the outdoors with her husband, and together they made a point of taking their children on summer camping trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains, often several times a year. A natural athlete who swam competitively during her teen years, Pat obtained Red Cross certification and gave swimming lessons to hundreds of local children, as well as many of her own grandchildren. She took up locally competitive tennis in her 40s and continued to play into her 80s.
Following the death of her husband Tom in June 2015, Pat relocated to Southern California to be near family.
She was beloved by her extended family and a circle of close friends and neighbors, and is survived by her children Kathleen Rodgers of Nelson, British Columbia; Tim Allen and his wife Shona of Medford, Ore., and Jacquelyn and her husband John Trautt of Long Beach; Diana Kay, the widow of her son Keith (who died in 2004 at age 50) of Woodstock, Vermont; Keith’s former wife Jane Allard Allen of Petaluma; brother Jim Powers; sister Judie Howard; 16 grandchildren (Dawn, Russell, and Keith Rodgers; Colton, Jason, Rene, and Logan Allen; Rael Hodges, Brianne Island-Smith and Janine Island; Adrienne Gonzalez, Jess and Lee Trautt; Tom and Jackson Allen, and Linea Kay); and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents, Rolla and Agnes Powers, sister Kathy Harris, son Keith Allen, and husband Tom Allen. Her brother Jack Powers died in June 2016.
Allen, Pat
Pat was born in Rosedale, Pa., on June 13, 1924. While attending college at UC Berkeley in 1943 — where she majored and excelled in the study of English literature — she met Thomas L. Allen. They were married on July 15, 1944, when they were both 20 years old. Their marriage lasted through more than 70 years of adventures, and gave them both great happiness.
At the end of World War II (in which Tom served as a junior officer on a submarine in the Pacific), they moved to Pasadena, where Tom earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Caltech. In 1950, the couple moved to Davis, where Tom was a member of the chemistry department faculty until his retirement in 1994. They lived in Davis for more than 65 years, and raised four children there.
In 1968, Pat began working as a volunteer for Suicide Prevention of Yolo County. Within a few years, the organization asked her to become its volunteer director. She was tireless in her efforts to build the organization, and when she finally stepped down in 1979, a full-time paid director was brought in to replace her. For her work with Suicide Prevention, the city of Davis awarded her the Brinley Award in 1978.
Pat Allen loved literature, music and the theater, and took up portrait painting in her 50s, working primarily in chalk pastels. She shared a love of the wilderness and the outdoors with her husband, and together they made a point of taking their children on summer camping trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains, often several times a year. A natural athlete who swam competitively during her teen years, Pat obtained Red Cross certification and gave swimming lessons to hundreds of local children, as well as many of her own grandchildren. She took up locally competitive tennis in her 40s and continued to play into her 80s.
Following the death of her husband Tom in June 2015, Pat relocated to Southern California to be near family.
She was beloved by her extended family and a circle of close friends and neighbors, and is survived by her children Kathleen Rodgers of Nelson, British Columbia; Tim Allen and his wife Shona of Medford, Ore., and Jacquelyn and her husband John Trautt of Long Beach; Diana Kay, the widow of her son Keith (who died in 2004 at age 50) of Woodstock, Vermont; Keith’s former wife Jane Allard Allen of Petaluma; brother Jim Powers; sister Judie Howard; 16 grandchildren (Dawn, Russell, and Keith Rodgers; Colton, Jason, Rene, and Logan Allen; Rael Hodges, Brianne Island-Smith and Janine Island; Adrienne Gonzalez, Jess and Lee Trautt; Tom and Jackson Allen, and Linea Kay); and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents, Rolla and Agnes Powers, sister Kathy Harris, son Keith Allen, and husband Tom Allen. Her brother Jack Powers died in June 2016.
Patricia Eileen Powers Allen of Davis died peacefully on April 14, 2016 at her home in Seal Beach. She was 91 years old.
Allen, Pat
Pat was born in Rosedale, Pa., on June 13, 1924. While attending college at UC Berkeley in 1943 — where she majored and excelled in the study of English literature — she met Thomas L. Allen. They were married on July 15, 1944, when they were both 20 years old. Their marriage lasted through more than 70 years of adventures, and gave them both great happiness.
At the end of World War II (in which Tom served as a junior officer on a submarine in the Pacific), they moved to Pasadena, where Tom earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Caltech. In 1950, the couple moved to Davis, where Tom was a member of the chemistry department faculty until his retirement in 1994. They lived in Davis for more than 65 years, and raised four children there.
In 1968, Pat began working as a volunteer for Suicide Prevention of Yolo County. Within a few years, the organization asked her to become its volunteer director. She was tireless in her efforts to build the organization, and when she finally stepped down in 1979, a full-time paid director was brought in to replace her. For her work with Suicide Prevention, the city of Davis awarded her the Brinley Award in 1978.
Pat Allen loved literature, music and the theater, and took up portrait painting in her 50s, working primarily in chalk pastels. She shared a love of the wilderness and the outdoors with her husband, and together they made a point of taking their children on summer camping trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains, often several times a year. A natural athlete who swam competitively during her teen years, Pat obtained Red Cross certification and gave swimming lessons to hundreds of local children, as well as many of her own grandchildren. She took up locally competitive tennis in her 40s and continued to play into her 80s.
Following the death of her husband Tom in June 2015, Pat relocated to Southern California to be near family.
She was beloved by her extended family and a circle of close friends and neighbors, and is survived by her children Kathleen Rodgers of Nelson, British Columbia; Tim Allen and his wife Shona of Medford, Ore., and Jacquelyn and her husband John Trautt of Long Beach; Diana Kay, the widow of her son Keith (who died in 2004 at age 50) of Woodstock, Vermont; Keith’s former wife Jane Allard Allen of Petaluma; brother Jim Powers; sister Judie Howard; 16 grandchildren (Dawn, Russell, and Keith Rodgers; Colton, Jason, Rene, and Logan Allen; Rael Hodges, Brianne Island-Smith and Janine Island; Adrienne Gonzalez, Jess and Lee Trautt; Tom and Jackson Allen, and Linea Kay); and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents, Rolla and Agnes Powers, sister Kathy Harris, son Keith Allen, and husband Tom Allen. Her brother Jack Powers died in June 2016.
Allen, Pat
Pat was born in Rosedale, Pa., on June 13, 1924. While attending college at UC Berkeley in 1943 — where she majored and excelled in the study of English literature — she met Thomas L. Allen. They were married on July 15, 1944, when they were both 20 years old. Their marriage lasted through more than 70 years of adventures, and gave them both great happiness.
At the end of World War II (in which Tom served as a junior officer on a submarine in the Pacific), they moved to Pasadena, where Tom earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Caltech. In 1950, the couple moved to Davis, where Tom was a member of the chemistry department faculty until his retirement in 1994. They lived in Davis for more than 65 years, and raised four children there.
In 1968, Pat began working as a volunteer for Suicide Prevention of Yolo County. Within a few years, the organization asked her to become its volunteer director. She was tireless in her efforts to build the organization, and when she finally stepped down in 1979, a full-time paid director was brought in to replace her. For her work with Suicide Prevention, the city of Davis awarded her the Brinley Award in 1978.
Pat Allen loved literature, music and the theater, and took up portrait painting in her 50s, working primarily in chalk pastels. She shared a love of the wilderness and the outdoors with her husband, and together they made a point of taking their children on summer camping trips in the Sierra Nevada mountains, often several times a year. A natural athlete who swam competitively during her teen years, Pat obtained Red Cross certification and gave swimming lessons to hundreds of local children, as well as many of her own grandchildren. She took up locally competitive tennis in her 40s and continued to play into her 80s.
Following the death of her husband Tom in June 2015, Pat relocated to Southern California to be near family.
She was beloved by her extended family and a circle of close friends and neighbors, and is survived by her children Kathleen Rodgers of Nelson, British Columbia; Tim Allen and his wife Shona of Medford, Ore., and Jacquelyn and her husband John Trautt of Long Beach; Diana Kay, the widow of her son Keith (who died in 2004 at age 50) of Woodstock, Vermont; Keith’s former wife Jane Allard Allen of Petaluma; brother Jim Powers; sister Judie Howard; 16 grandchildren (Dawn, Russell, and Keith Rodgers; Colton, Jason, Rene, and Logan Allen; Rael Hodges, Brianne Island-Smith and Janine Island; Adrienne Gonzalez, Jess and Lee Trautt; Tom and Jackson Allen, and Linea Kay); and 12 great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her parents, Rolla and Agnes Powers, sister Kathy Harris, son Keith Allen, and husband Tom Allen. Her brother Jack Powers died in June 2016.
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