Allen Frank Treadway

DECATUR - Allen Frank Treadway, 73, formerly of Decatur, died at his home in Xenia, Ohio, in the early hours of 5-19-2005 following a lengthy illness. He was born 11-30-1931 in White Plains, New York, son of Clay and Dorothea (Allen) Treadway, the first of their four children. On 6-15-1954, at Coal Creek, Iowa, he married Carolyn Ardith Smith; last summer they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary at Yellow Springs Friends Meeting, where they were members. Allen was a graduate of East High School in Des Moines, Iowa, and of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. He was a conscientious objector, and did two years of alternative service at Indianapolis General Hospital following college. His career was varied, including work as a printer, middle school math teacher, county social worker, municipal water and wastewater superintendent, nut butter production manager, and driver for a family literacy program. He challenged assumptions and made us think. He gardened and heated with wood. He read omnivorously. He was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his wife; his siblings: Ann Cook-Frantz (Alan Frantz) of Wayland, Massachusetts, Ray (Carole) of Greensboro, North Carolina, Roy (Carolyn) of Normal, Illinois; five children: Daniel of Gilbert, Iowa, Brian (Geraldine Glodek) of Hannibal, Missouri, Dorothy Matthews (Samuel) of Ewing, Illinois, Jennifer Peters (Vince) of Yellow Springs, Ohio, Michael Irving of West Branch, Iowa; and six grandchildren: Christina and Andrew Peters, and Stephen, Philip, Mary, and Joseph Matthews. Services will be held at Yellow Springs Friends Meeting, Yellow Springs, Ohio, on 6-4-2005 at 10:30 am, and at Bear Creek Friends Meeting (Conservative) near Earlham, Iowa, on 6-18-2005. The body has been donated to Wright State University School of Medicine. Obituary written by family members. Online guest book at www.legacy.com/herald-review/LegacyHome.asp