DR. WILLARD ALLEN, 88; DOROTHY ALLEN, 89; KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN PENNSYLVANIA
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Friday, August 6, 1993
Dr. Willard M. Allen, a former official at Washington University Medical School, was killed with his wife, Dorothy D. Allen, in a traffic accident Monday (Aug. 2, 1993) in Terry County, Pa.
They lived in Glenwood, Md. He was 88; she was 89.
From 1940 to 1971, Dr. Allen headed the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University Medical School. The Allens lived first in University City and then in Creve Coeur.
He was a native of Macedon, N.Y. Reared on a farm, he displayed a green thumb for the rest of his life. He graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and got his medical degree in 1932 from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Allen first taught at the University of Rochester. In 1935, he got the Eli Lilly Award in biological chemistry for the isolation in pure form of progesterone, a female hormone.
He retired from Washington University in 1971 but quickly came out of retirement to join the faculty of the medical school of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he taught until 1982.
Mrs. Allen was a native of Mendon, N.Y., and a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Dr. Allen's first wife, Belle Gardner Allen, died in the late 1930s.
Among those surviving Dr. Allen are a daughter, Lucille Anderson of Pittsburgh; a brother, Nelson Allen of Farmington. N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Baker, also of Farmington, and Mildred Capron of Victor, N.Y; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Among those surviving Mrs. Allen are a niece and two nephews.
A joint memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Farmington (N.Y.) Friends Church. A private graveside service will be held earlier in the day at the church burial grounds.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Friday, August 6, 1993
Dr. Willard M. Allen, a former official at Washington University Medical School, was killed with his wife, Dorothy D. Allen, in a traffic accident Monday (Aug. 2, 1993) in Terry County, Pa.
They lived in Glenwood, Md. He was 88; she was 89.
From 1940 to 1971, Dr. Allen headed the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University Medical School. The Allens lived first in University City and then in Creve Coeur.
He was a native of Macedon, N.Y. Reared on a farm, he displayed a green thumb for the rest of his life. He graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and got his medical degree in 1932 from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Allen first taught at the University of Rochester. In 1935, he got the Eli Lilly Award in biological chemistry for the isolation in pure form of progesterone, a female hormone.
He retired from Washington University in 1971 but quickly came out of retirement to join the faculty of the medical school of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he taught until 1982.
Mrs. Allen was a native of Mendon, N.Y., and a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Dr. Allen's first wife, Belle Gardner Allen, died in the late 1930s.
Among those surviving Dr. Allen are a daughter, Lucille Anderson of Pittsburgh; a brother, Nelson Allen of Farmington. N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Baker, also of Farmington, and Mildred Capron of Victor, N.Y; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Among those surviving Mrs. Allen are a niece and two nephews.
A joint memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Farmington (N.Y.) Friends Church. A private graveside service will be held earlier in the day at the church burial grounds.
DR. WILLARD ALLEN, 88; DOROTHY ALLEN, 89; KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN PENNSYLVANIA
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Friday, August 6, 1993
Dr. Willard M. Allen, a former official at Washington University Medical School, was killed with his wife, Dorothy D. Allen, in a traffic accident Monday (Aug. 2, 1993) in Terry County, Pa.
They lived in Glenwood, Md. He was 88; she was 89.
From 1940 to 1971, Dr. Allen headed the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University Medical School. The Allens lived first in University City and then in Creve Coeur.
He was a native of Macedon, N.Y. Reared on a farm, he displayed a green thumb for the rest of his life. He graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and got his medical degree in 1932 from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Allen first taught at the University of Rochester. In 1935, he got the Eli Lilly Award in biological chemistry for the isolation in pure form of progesterone, a female hormone.
He retired from Washington University in 1971 but quickly came out of retirement to join the faculty of the medical school of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he taught until 1982.
Mrs. Allen was a native of Mendon, N.Y., and a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Dr. Allen's first wife, Belle Gardner Allen, died in the late 1930s.
Among those surviving Dr. Allen are a daughter, Lucille Anderson of Pittsburgh; a brother, Nelson Allen of Farmington. N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Baker, also of Farmington, and Mildred Capron of Victor, N.Y; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Among those surviving Mrs. Allen are a niece and two nephews.
A joint memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Farmington (N.Y.) Friends Church. A private graveside service will be held earlier in the day at the church burial grounds.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) - Friday, August 6, 1993
Dr. Willard M. Allen, a former official at Washington University Medical School, was killed with his wife, Dorothy D. Allen, in a traffic accident Monday (Aug. 2, 1993) in Terry County, Pa.
They lived in Glenwood, Md. He was 88; she was 89.
From 1940 to 1971, Dr. Allen headed the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University Medical School. The Allens lived first in University City and then in Creve Coeur.
He was a native of Macedon, N.Y. Reared on a farm, he displayed a green thumb for the rest of his life. He graduated from Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and got his medical degree in 1932 from the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Allen first taught at the University of Rochester. In 1935, he got the Eli Lilly Award in biological chemistry for the isolation in pure form of progesterone, a female hormone.
He retired from Washington University in 1971 but quickly came out of retirement to join the faculty of the medical school of the University of Maryland at Baltimore, where he taught until 1982.
Mrs. Allen was a native of Mendon, N.Y., and a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Dr. Allen's first wife, Belle Gardner Allen, died in the late 1930s.
Among those surviving Dr. Allen are a daughter, Lucille Anderson of Pittsburgh; a brother, Nelson Allen of Farmington. N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Baker, also of Farmington, and Mildred Capron of Victor, N.Y; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Among those surviving Mrs. Allen are a niece and two nephews.
A joint memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Farmington (N.Y.) Friends Church. A private graveside service will be held earlier in the day at the church burial grounds.
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