Clint Allen Obituary
Clinton Allen, also known as Bob Wyer, died peacefully early on December 23, 2024, with his wife Carol and son Michael at his bedside.
Born in 1935, to Aurelia Burt Allen and Chester Howard Allen in Uxbridge, MA, Clint was predeceased by them, his beloved stepfather Edward Carroll, and brothers Chester and Wallace “Wally” He is survived by his sister Faith Ann (Faye) Tetreau, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and -nephews, and informally adopted daughter and former student Ayumi Imai Tatsuki, her husband Kaz and children Minami, Kotomi, and Manami of Honolulu, HI.
In 1954 Clint left high school to enlist in the USAF He was assigned to MATs as an air traffic controller and posted in Casablanca, Morocco. Two years later he was transferred to Troon, Scotland where he married Alice Mair Glen and they had three children: Edward (deceased), Pamela and Glenda. They divorced in 1964.
That year, while working in construction in Washington D.C., he met UCLA nursing student Carol Brady who was working a summer job in a hospital there. They married in California in August 1966 and had two children: Michael Cameron in 1968 and Lara Kathleen (AKA Cait Sorinson Allen) in 1970.
Clint was a quality control inspector for McCulloch Corp while Carol worked first at a hospital in Watts and later at Kaiser West LA.
In 1977 Clint purchased an Appaloosa horse, Cotati, fulfilling a long-held dream. Needing a barn and pasture, the Allens moved to Spokane Valley, Washington, where Clint soon became a 4-H Horse leader and enjoyed working with kids and horses. He took English riding lessons in addition to Western to offer more skills and he loved endurance riding when he had time for it. He worked as an inspector with Instrumentation Labs.
After leaving his inspection job in 1990, Clint studied nursing in a community college program and was a nursing assistant at several long-term care facilities. He loved working with the elderly and upon earning his RN in 1991, chose to stay in long-term care.
With both children now grown and just one horse in the barn, the Allens set off for Guam, where Carol worked at the University of Guam and Clint at Guam Memorial hospital. They learned to scuba dive, which Clint loved, and he dove all over Micronesia and the Pacific. He and Carol traveled extensively throughout the Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Fiji, and American Samoa. In 1994 they returned to Spokane Valley where Clint worked in long-term care until his retirement. He and Carol also traveled in Central America, Malawi, Zambia. South Africa, Turkiye, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and England, including two special trips—one to Ireland and another, his last, to Morocco.
Clint, as “Bob Wyer,” enjoyed Single Action Shooting, also known as “cowboy shooting.” Dressed in Old West clothes, participants engage in competitions staged as vignettes, shooting at related targets. Scores are based on speed and accuracy. Clint loved the game and the camaraderie.
He loved trying new foods and had a wicked sense of humor up to last minutes of his life. In his last days, Clint described his life as “long and wonderful, with many adventures and opportunities to learn. All in all It was a wonderful life!”
Services will be held at 1:00PM Saturday January 18, 2025 at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection 15319 E 8th Ave Spokane Valley. Cowboys/girls wear your regalia. No guns please.
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