Sad
news of Jean Allen
Update: Jean's funeral service will
take place on Wednesday 21st December 2016 at 14:40 at Macclesfield Cemetery
& Crematorium, 87 Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, SK10 3BN. After the service
there will be a reception so if you are planning to attend the funeral and reception
please contact us for details
so Stuart will have a guide as to numbers for catering.
Photo: Geoff Allen,
the former V8 Historian & Archivist with Jean Allen seated alongside at the
V8 Anniversary Dinner in 2003 held at the BRDC suite at Silverstone. Seated behind
Jean is Roger Lane-Knott (BRDC) and beyond him, Phyllida and Mike Maude-Roxby.
(Photo: Gavin Bailey)
Posted: 161130 & updated:
161212 |  | Stuart
Danton has been in touch to say the "with great sadness I have to tell you
that Jean Allen passed away in her sleep just before midnight last night. Judith
and I had spent much of the day at her bedside and I can confirm she was at peace".
Jean
Allen was widowed in 2006 when Geoff Allen, her husband for over 50 years, passed
away. They had lived for many years in Abingdon when he had worked in Rectifications
Department at the MG Plant. Following the closure of the plant Geoff set up his
own MG servicing business in Abingdon and Jean supported him in many ways, not
least with bookkeeping and driving to Moss near Twickenham to collect replacement
parts! Jean clearly enjoyed driving the V8. They later moved to Congleton in Cheshire.
Jean suffered a fall and a broken hip early in September 2015 and as she
was recovering it became clear her impaired mobility would need her to relocate
to a local care home. Her neighbours Stuart and Judith Danton provided truly exceptional
support throughtout. |
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