Allen S. Brisson

CULLOWHEE - Allen Stanley Brisson, 22, of 113 Rodeo Drive, Cullowhee, formerly of Fayetteville, passed away Thursday, June 3, 2010. He was born July 23, 1987, in Cumberland County. Allen was a 2005 graduate of Terry Sanford High School and a 2010 graduate of Western Carolina University, with a degree in business management. He was also a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was full of life and loved living in the mountains of Western Carolina. Hiking and rafting were his favorite things to do while living in the Western Carolina mountains. Allen was taking the summer off to enjoy life before entering into the world of business. Preceding him in death were his maternal grandfather, Robert Stanley, and paternal grandfather, Elwood Brisson. Left behind to cherish Allen's lasting memories are his mother, Denise Stanley Brisson of Fayetteville, and his father, Dallas O. Brisson of Fayetteville; one sister, Caroline E. Brisson, a student of East Carolina University in Greenville; one brother, Clint D. Brisson, a recent graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, where he lives; maternal grandmother, Gladys Best and her husband, retired Army Col. Frederick W. Best, of Fayetteville; and paternal grandmother, Margaret Carpenter of Fayetteville. He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins, and a host of friends. Family and friends will gather from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2010, at Rogers and Breece Funeral Home, 500 Ramsey St., to share memories of the life of Allen Stanley Brisson, and at other times will be at the residence of his grandmother, Margaret Carpenter, 728 Shopton Court in Fayetteville. Services to celebrate the life of Allen Stanley Brisson will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Haymount United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Robert Cox and Pastor Woody Wells officiating. He will be laid to rest at Lafayette Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Western Carolina University Kappa Alpha Fraternity in memory of Allen Stanley Brisson 114 East University Way, Cullowhee, NC 28723 Services entrusted to Rogers and Breece Funeral Home of Fayetteville.


This obituary was originally published in the Fayetteville Observer.