Article: OBITUARIES.(Obituaries)

Byline: The Register-Guard

Raymond Allen

COTTAGE GROVE - The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, at Lane Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home for Raymond Lee Allen of Cottage Grove, who died Sept. 24 of age-related causes at age 87. Visitation will be from noon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the funeral home.

He was born May 9, 1922, in Tampico, Ill., to Raymond and Edith Worleins Allen. He married Edith Winn on Aug. 15, 1942. She died in 2004. His domestic partner for the past 1 1/2 years was Cloe Patton.

He served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Boise during World War II. He was a truck driver for Southern Pacific.

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