ALLENE NOWLAND POORE, AGE 85, OF SMYRNA DELAWARE, PASSED AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY ON SEPTEMBER 17 ^TH 2021 SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.

ALLENE WAS BORN A FARMER'S DAUGHTER ON OCTOBER 22 1935. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF HELEN (JONES) AND BILL NOWLAND. SHE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THEIR 6 CHILDREN.

ALLENE INHERITED A LOVE OF COOKING FROM HER MOTHER, SHE TOOK GREAT PLEASURE IN PREPARING MEALS AND DESERTS AND SHARING WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS. IN HIGH SCHOOL SHE PARTICIPATED IN SPORTS AND OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.

HER MOST IMPORTANT OCCUPATION WAS THAT OF MOTHER, RAISING TWO SONS ON HER OWN. SHE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE CAFETERIA STAFF WITH THE SMYRNA SCHOOL DISTRICT BEFORE MOVING ON AND FINISHING HER CAREER WITH THE STATE OF DELAWARE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. AFTER HER RETIREMENT SHE STARTED A BABYSITTING SERVICE FOR HER FIRST GRANDSON AND OTHER FAMILY AND FRIENDS CHILDREN. WHEN HER GRANDDAUGHTER REACHED SCHOOL AGE, ALLENE GAVE UP BABY SITTING AND STARTED AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER IN ORDER TO STAY CLOSE TO HER GRANDDAUGHTER.

ALLENE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN HER CHURCH OF CHOICE ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN SMYRNA, DELAWARE. IT BECAME HER SECOND HOME AND SECOND FAMILY.

EVEN THOUGH BEING STRICKEN WITH SEVERE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS SOME YEARS AGO ALLENE REMAINED A POSITIVE LIFE LOVING PERSON AND KEPT HER FRIENDLY OUTGOING PERSONALITY TO THE VERY END.

ALLENE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BOTH PARENTS, ALL OF HER SIBLINGS, HER BELOVED GRANDDAUGHTER RACHAEL POORE, AS WELL AS SEVERAL SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAWS, SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS, AND MANY LIFELONG FRIENDS.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SONS DONNIE AND BRANDON POORE, GRANDSONS JOSHUA POORE AND BRANDON G POORE, GREAT GRANDSON GRAEYSON POORE, BROTHER-IN-LAW ALLEN EVERETT, FORMER DAUGHTER-IN-LAWS DEBBIE AND KAREN POORE, AS WELL AS NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND VARIOUS FRIENDS.

SERVICES WILL BE HELD 11 AM WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29 AT ASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 20 W. MT. VERNON ST., SMYRNA, WHERE FRIENDS MAY CALL AT 10 AM. BURIAL WILL BE IN GLENWOOD CEMETERY, SMYRNA.

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE SENT TO ASBURY U.M. CHURCH, 20 W. MT. VERNON ST., SMYRNA, DE 19977.

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ARRANGEMENTS ARE BY MATTHEWS-BRYSON FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES, SMYRNA.