Bryan Kendall Allen

Bryan Kendall Allen, 85, of Harrisonburg, died on Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at Sunnyside Presbyterian Home where he had lived for the past year.

He was born April 10, 1917, in Rockingham County and was the son of the late James Ward and Florence Shifflett Allen.

Mr. Allen was a lifetime resident of this area and served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the 116th Infantry in Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland and Central Europe. He was a member of the Rion-Bowman VFW Post 632.

After the service, he worked at Dupont and later he worked at Sunnyside Presbyterian Home for 27 years. He was a member of the St. James United Methodist Church and a former member of the Moose.

Mr. Allen was a country music fan who loved to play his steel guitar. He was an avid fisherman here in the Valley, taking his children with him and later in life, teaching his grandchildren how to fish. He had a great love for baseball, but nothing matched his love for his family and his grandchildren.

On Dec. 24, 1945, he married Margaret Alice Louderback who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Ronald Allen and wife Sharon of Harrisonburg, and Gary Allen of Harrisonburg; one daughter, Sharon Wright of Harrisonburg; one sister, Ressie Dovel of Towson, Md.; ten grandchildren, Kim Moubray, who was raised by Mr. Allen, Aaron Wright, Sheila Allen, Shawn Allen, Chad O. Allen, Brent Allen, Bryan Allen, Chad M. Allen, Renee Allen and Kyle Allen, and three great-grandchildren, Logan Moubray, Cameron Moubray and Sydney Grace Wright.

Funeral services will be conducted 12 Noon on Saturday at the Kyger Funeral Home in Harrisonburg by the Rev. Paul O‘Gorek and Rev. Tom Smith. Burial with military rites will be in Eastlawn Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends this evening (Friday) from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Kyger Funeral Home in Harrisonburg.

Memorial donations may be made to Sunnyside Retirement Community, 100 Sunnyside Drive, or the RMH Hospice Program, 235 Cantrell Avenue, both in Harrisonburg, Va., 22801.