Susan K. Allen

Susan K. Allen, 51, died July 14, 2011, of natural causes at Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla.

Susan was born Oct. 10, 1959, to Amelia B. and Harold L. Ordway at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Susan moved to Alaska in 1967 as a child. She graduated from high school in 1978. She was a member of the Alaska Bird Club.

She met her husband, David W. Allen, in 1982 and they married 1983. She enjoyed sewing, painting, crocheting, tatting, playing the piano, camping and fishing.

Surviving are her husband, David Allen; children, Tilly and her husband Anthony Winburn, Jeremy Allen and his fiancée Sarah Transki, Thomas-Lee Allen and his fiancée Susan Walberg, and Cora Allen and her fiancé Gerald Vonscheele; mother, Amelia B. Ordway; brother, John Polzin and his wife Hattie; sisters, Nancy Ordway and her husband Cowboy Greschke, Constance Ordway and Cynthia Ordway; and grandchildren, Cody, Dustin, Natalie Winburn, Malachi, Staci, Jacqueline, Destinee, Felicia Allen and Blaise Thompson.

Preceding her in death were her father, Harold L. Ordway, and brother, William D. Ordway.

Memorial services for Susan Allen are at 7 p.m., July 28 at Muldoon Community Assembly, 741 Debarr Rd., Anchorage.

Contributions for helping the family can be made at Denali Alaskan FCU.