Laura Allen Obituary

ALLEN, Laura Laura Alice Parmenter Allen, 87, of Goose Creek, wife of Robert P. Allen, entered into eternal rest on the morning of September 3, 2007 at The Hospice Center of Charleston in Mt. Pleasant. Visitation will be held Thursday, September 6, 2007 from 6PM to 8PM at James A. Dyal Funeral Home, Summerville. A graveside service will be held Friday, September 7, 2007 at 11 o'clock at Beaufort National Cemetery, Beaufort, SC. After the graveside service, family and friends are invited to attend the reception at 4 o'clock at the residence. Laura was of Presbyterian Faith. Laura and her husband of 65 years have lived in the Summerville, Goose Creek area for the past 44 years. Laura was an expert homemaker and devoted mother and is survived by her husband Robert who is retired from the US Navy and Lockheed. She was born on July 21, 1920 in Keensburg, IL and was raised in Princeton, IN. She and her husband Robert graduated from Princeton High School and dated while in High School. Robert immediately joined the Navy after graduating from High School and they were married three years later in Norfolk, VA. She was a stalwart Navy wife for 17 ½ years, raising two sons during her husband's frequent times away from home during his Navy career. She is survived by her sons; Michael R. Allen and his wife Barbara Jo Allen of Winter Park, FL, and James J. Allen and his wife Jolene N. Allen of Sanford, FL, her grandson, Mark P. Allen of Wilmington, NC, her grand daughter, Jennifer R. Ruggieri of Sanford, FL and her great grandson, Casey M. Ruggieri of Sanford, FL. She is greatly loved by her immediate family and she loved and is loved in return by numerous nieces and nephews in the Allen and Parmenter families in Southern Indiana. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Hospice Center, 676 Wando Park Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464. ARRANGEMENTS BY JAMES A. DYAL FUNERAL HOME, 303 S. MAIN STREET, SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483. Visit our guestbook at www.charleston.net/deaths.