Constance M. Allen passed away Aug. 23, 2006, at home of
natural causes. Funeral services will be held t 1 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 26, at Zeyer Funeral Chapel, 83 N. Midland
Blvd., Nampa. There will be a viewing one hour prior to
the service. Burial will be at Roswell Cemetery,
Roswell, Idaho. Arrangements are being provided by Zeyer
Funeral Chapel, Nampa. Connie was born
Dec. 15, 1917, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the second child
of Sydney Thomas Brown and Della Mae Lucas. The family
immigrated to San Francisco, Calif., when Connie was 5.
She attended high school there along with Lana Turner.
Glamorous and beautiful, she modeled in Vogue for perfume ad,
posed for a Shell Oil magazine cover, and with Joe DiMaggio,
Tyrone Power and John Wayne. She married Victor H.
Pinckney in 1939, and to this union was born her daughter,
Constance Diane. They later divorced and Connie and
Corky made their home in Long Beach, Calif. There she
met and married a handsome young Marine named Norris D. Allen.
She was the consummate young officer's wife. She was
known for her magical themed dinner parties, as well as the
lovely formal teas, given for the wives of visiting
dignitaries. She was active as a volunteer in Nave
Relief. She made a beautiful home for her little family
that was joined by daughter Shelley Elaine in 1956.
Like any good Marine wife, she moved that home many times due
to her husband's career. The family lived in Cherry
Point, N. C., Quantico, VA., Albany, Ga., Kaneohe, Hawaii, El
Toro, Calif., a second tour in Georgia, and finally, after 26
years in the Marines, to Boise. She and Dale were
married 53 years, until his death in 2004.
She enjoyed drawing, bridge, antiquing, fishing, picking
huckleberries, scratch-off lottery tickets, crossword puzzles,
Texas Hold'em and watching Tiger Woods win.
She was preceded in death by her husband Norris, and by her
parents, her brothers Norman and Bob, grandson Allen P. Brown,
and great-granddaughter Victoria Andrae.
She is survived by her daughters Corky Brown and Shelley
Goodsell (Kent), her sister Adelyn Wilds of Richmond, Calif.,
step-brother Tom Brown of Devon, Alberta, grandchildren Connie
Swindt, Amy Brown, Christine, Bryson and Kameron Moore, Sarah
Punkoney (Bill), John (Lisa), Phillip, and Emily Goodsell, and
numerous great-grandchildren. |