Information for Constance M. Brown Pinckney Allen
2 April 1905 - 11 October 1979
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Constance M. Allen

     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.








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