Betty Allen

Betty Ann Allen 93 of Sunnyside passed away on October 6, 2013, Betty was born in Hoquiam Washington in 1920 of George and Viola Brault. She had an older brother Robert and younger sister Audrey. Her father was a bookkeeper for a Tugboat company and eventually Mayor of Hoquiam Washington; her mother was a homemaker and very active in the First United Presbyterian Church of Hoquiam. During WWII, her mother served as Post Mistress in Hoquiam. Betty attended secretarial school, but wanted to be a Nurse. She eventually went to Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing and graduated in 1945. She was adventurous. After working for a short time in Medical Lake and back in Hoquiam at hospitals, she moved to Hawaii in 1946 as head of Surgical Nursing. She worked at the Kuakini Hospital for two years; which before the war was a Japanese hospital with doctors who spoke only Japanese and all the records were in Japanese. After two years and a lot of travel through the Hawaiian Islands; she moved to Bay City Texas with friends. Texas didn’t agree with her, so in 1949, she moved back to Hoquiam. She worked in the Gray’s Harbor Community Hospital as a surgical nurse as well as a nurse anesthetist. While in Hoquiam in 1953; she met an old friend of the family who had been a neighbor in the early 1930’s; Roscoe N. Allen. They courted and eventually married on November 29, 1953. In the following years they had five children and moved to Sunnyside, Washington in 1962. She started work at Valley Memorial Hospital in Sunnyside as a Registered Nurse and eventually become the Director of Nursing. She retired in 1986 as the DNS. Though, felt idle in retirement and decided in 1987 at the age of 66 that “someone needed to take care of the old people”; so she worked as a nurse for Yakima Memorial Home Health. She re-retired in 1998 at the age of 78, earning Home Health Nurse of the Year for the state of Washington. She said she wanted to go out on a High Note. Over the preceding years she had traveled extensively, including Denmark, Italy, Israel, Singapore, Venezuela, Canada, back to Hawaii and she and Roscoe traveled throughout the USA visiting friends and relatives. Betty loved to travel and to spend time with her friends and family; she was an Elder of the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church and an active grandmother fully involved with her grandchildren’s extracurricular activities and their school activities. She is and always has been dearly loved and cherished as a wife, mother, and grandmother. Betty believed in Faith, Hope, and Charity, and tried to abide by these standards. She will be sorely missed; but her friends and family know she is active in her new life with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Betty is survived by her sons; George Allen of Federal Way Washington, Nelson (Tracy) Allen of Magnolia Texas, Jon (Joyce) Allen of Sunnyside WA. Daughters: Linda (Mike) Lehman of Spokane Valley WA, and Kathy (Kent) Tramel of Sunnyside WA. Grandchildren; Jonathan B. Lehman, Patrick D. Lehman in Spokane WA; Hank A. Tramel, Wilson D. Tramel, Kurtis J. Tramel in Sunnyside WA; Cassandra D. Allen, Daniel B. Allen in Tumwater WA; Zachary M. Allen, Travis W. Allen, Rachel M. Allen in Magnolia Texas and Grandchildren of special circumstances Darren Lehman, Heather Crowder and Stanly Petersen. Sister-Audrey Jones; Kennewick Washington Proceeded in Death by Her Husband of 41 years Roscoe Allen, parents; George and Viola Brault and her Brother Robert Brault of Santa Monica California. Donations and Memorials-In lieu of Flowers; Betty would ask that you donate to your local Church, your local Food Bank or the Lower Valley Hospice. A non- perishable food bank Item will be accepted at the time of Service. A memorial service will be held on Saturday October 12, 2013 at 3:00 pm at the Sunnyside Presbyterian Church. Tributes can be left at www.valleyhillsfh.com. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Betty Allen, please visit our flower store.