Gregory Walton Allen of Media
Gregory Walton Allen of Lima Estates in Media, died Tuesday, March 15 after a short illness. He was 91.
Born in Montclair, N.J., Greg attended the University of Arkansas. He worked his way through school as a chicken processor, emerging with a degree in industrial psychology He joined an aircraft engineering company, which became part of Boeing. Greg married Kay Shaw in 1961. Their son Raymond completed the family.
Greg worked with Boeing Vertol in Human Relations from 1960-1974 and 1981-1994, and in personnel with GE at Lenape Forge. Following retirement from Boeing, he helped train medical students as a standardized patient.
Greg was a longtime resident of Rose Valley, where the family lived in an arts and crafts storybook cottage. He took part in many aspects of civic life in Rose Valley, serving for decades as a board member of the Rose Valley Swim & Tennis Club, member of the Rose Valley Folk, volunteer at the Helen Kate Furness Free Library, Town Watch patroller, Red Cross blood drive organizer, and election official for the Democratic Party.
Greg was an avid sailor on the Chesapeake, in Anguilla and elsewhere in the Caribbean. With Kay and Raymond, Greg continued cruising new waterways abroad and traveling much of the US. He loved music, as a singer with the Montclair Boys Choir and the Robert Shaw Chorale, as a Philadelphia Orchestra subscriber, and as an educator of budding classical music fans. He was also passionate about cars and racing, as the owner of a Crosley roadster, a Porsche sprint car, and an Olds Toronado, and traveling to racetracks across the US. Following Kay’s death, Greg moved to the senior community of Lima Estates.
There he continued as a musical educator and programmer and became a hospice volunteer. He remained a clever bridge player, an avid reader, and an active fan of the 76ers and The Process. Greg is survived by his son Raymond and daughter-in-law Joanie Ryder of Seattle. as well as cousins Deb Shaw, Samantha Reiner, and Karen Weselyk, all of Chadds Ford. Family and friends will gather this summer for a memorial service.
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