The Daily Miner, Houghton, Michigan, August 2016
KINGMAN, Ariz. - Antonia (Toni) Allison, 58, passed away in Kingman, Arizona, on Sunday, August 7, 2016, in Hospice with friends at her side.
Toni was born June 4, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of the late Dr. John Allison and Dr. Betzabe (Allison) Praeger, both professors at Michigan Tech.
She was a 1975 graduate of Houghton High School with Honors and a 1979 graduate of Michigan Tech in geology and liberal arts.
Toni went on to get a graduate degree in Geo Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1986, including a United Nations Geology Fellowship to Argentina for a year.
She loved being a field geologist in the southwest states, exploring and mapping areas few people ever get to see and was respected in the industry as one of their best field geologists.
Toni was also an accomplished musician, artist and writer. She was an outstanding pianist and a member of the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, where she played the oboe and English horn.
She also played many other instruments. Her father composed a beautiful concerto for English horn and piano that they performed together in an evening concert.
In 1979, Toni married the late Tony Asermelly. In 1992, she married Tom Skeen. Tom and Toni's special friend, Ed Jucevic, was with her as she passed.
She is survived by her mother, Betzi Praeger of Houghton; and preceded in death by her father, John Allison in 2013.
Toni's ashes will be scattered on the beautiful foothills in her remote backyard near Kingman.
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Her M.S. thesis was: Allison, Antonia E., 1986, The geology of the Bajo El Durazno porphyry copper-gold prospect, Catamarca Province, Argentina, 167 p.
KINGMAN, Ariz. - Antonia (Toni) Allison, 58, passed away in Kingman, Arizona, on Sunday, August 7, 2016, in Hospice with friends at her side.
Toni was born June 4, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of the late Dr. John Allison and Dr. Betzabe (Allison) Praeger, both professors at Michigan Tech.
She was a 1975 graduate of Houghton High School with Honors and a 1979 graduate of Michigan Tech in geology and liberal arts.
Toni went on to get a graduate degree in Geo Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1986, including a United Nations Geology Fellowship to Argentina for a year.
She loved being a field geologist in the southwest states, exploring and mapping areas few people ever get to see and was respected in the industry as one of their best field geologists.
Toni was also an accomplished musician, artist and writer. She was an outstanding pianist and a member of the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, where she played the oboe and English horn.
She also played many other instruments. Her father composed a beautiful concerto for English horn and piano that they performed together in an evening concert.
In 1979, Toni married the late Tony Asermelly. In 1992, she married Tom Skeen. Tom and Toni's special friend, Ed Jucevic, was with her as she passed.
She is survived by her mother, Betzi Praeger of Houghton; and preceded in death by her father, John Allison in 2013.
Toni's ashes will be scattered on the beautiful foothills in her remote backyard near Kingman.
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Her M.S. thesis was: Allison, Antonia E., 1986, The geology of the Bajo El Durazno porphyry copper-gold prospect, Catamarca Province, Argentina, 167 p.
The Daily Miner, Houghton, Michigan, August 2016
KINGMAN, Ariz. - Antonia (Toni) Allison, 58, passed away in Kingman, Arizona, on Sunday, August 7, 2016, in Hospice with friends at her side.
Toni was born June 4, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of the late Dr. John Allison and Dr. Betzabe (Allison) Praeger, both professors at Michigan Tech.
She was a 1975 graduate of Houghton High School with Honors and a 1979 graduate of Michigan Tech in geology and liberal arts.
Toni went on to get a graduate degree in Geo Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1986, including a United Nations Geology Fellowship to Argentina for a year.
She loved being a field geologist in the southwest states, exploring and mapping areas few people ever get to see and was respected in the industry as one of their best field geologists.
Toni was also an accomplished musician, artist and writer. She was an outstanding pianist and a member of the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, where she played the oboe and English horn.
She also played many other instruments. Her father composed a beautiful concerto for English horn and piano that they performed together in an evening concert.
In 1979, Toni married the late Tony Asermelly. In 1992, she married Tom Skeen. Tom and Toni's special friend, Ed Jucevic, was with her as she passed.
She is survived by her mother, Betzi Praeger of Houghton; and preceded in death by her father, John Allison in 2013.
Toni's ashes will be scattered on the beautiful foothills in her remote backyard near Kingman.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Her M.S. thesis was: Allison, Antonia E., 1986, The geology of the Bajo El Durazno porphyry copper-gold prospect, Catamarca Province, Argentina, 167 p.
KINGMAN, Ariz. - Antonia (Toni) Allison, 58, passed away in Kingman, Arizona, on Sunday, August 7, 2016, in Hospice with friends at her side.
Toni was born June 4, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of the late Dr. John Allison and Dr. Betzabe (Allison) Praeger, both professors at Michigan Tech.
She was a 1975 graduate of Houghton High School with Honors and a 1979 graduate of Michigan Tech in geology and liberal arts.
Toni went on to get a graduate degree in Geo Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1986, including a United Nations Geology Fellowship to Argentina for a year.
She loved being a field geologist in the southwest states, exploring and mapping areas few people ever get to see and was respected in the industry as one of their best field geologists.
Toni was also an accomplished musician, artist and writer. She was an outstanding pianist and a member of the Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra, where she played the oboe and English horn.
She also played many other instruments. Her father composed a beautiful concerto for English horn and piano that they performed together in an evening concert.
In 1979, Toni married the late Tony Asermelly. In 1992, she married Tom Skeen. Tom and Toni's special friend, Ed Jucevic, was with her as she passed.
She is survived by her mother, Betzi Praeger of Houghton; and preceded in death by her father, John Allison in 2013.
Toni's ashes will be scattered on the beautiful foothills in her remote backyard near Kingman.
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Her M.S. thesis was: Allison, Antonia E., 1986, The geology of the Bajo El Durazno porphyry copper-gold prospect, Catamarca Province, Argentina, 167 p.
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