Allen Flint

FARMINGTON -- Allen Flint, professor emeritus of the University of Maine at Farmington, suffered a major stroke in his home in Farmington and died on May 4, 2007, surrounded by his family.

Born on Nov. 15, 1929, and raised in Park River, N. D., Allen was the son of Orva Hastings Flint and William Henry Flint. He was predeceased by his parents, his brothers Roland, David, and Donald Flint and his first wife, Helen Sorlie Flint. He is survived by his sisters Lois Flint Eldridge and Helen Mary Flint.

Allen was a loving husband for 40 years to Mary Halpern Flint, an outstanding father to Catherine Morgan (husband Stuart) of Minnesota, Andrew Flint (wife Ida) of Washington, Meredith Kendall (husband Schuyler) of Maine, Susan Barr (husband John) of New York, and Joshua Flint (fiancŽe Mercy Ann Dioquinio) of Arizona.

He read and fished with his nine grandchildren, Lev and Hannah Morgan; Miles, Adrian, and Dylan Flint; Elliot Allen and Micah Kendall; and Gwendolyn and Gabriel Barr. He also took them to baseball games.

Allen served in the U.S. Army and took great pride in the work he did teaching illiterate soldiers to read. Allen was an administrator at the University of Minnesota. He taught first at Western Illinois University, then for 26 years at UMF. His doctoral dissertation was on the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. A scholar, he was awarded Fulbrights to Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Brno, Czechoslovakia. He lectured on a wide variety of topics, sometimes humorously. His vast depth of studies included black literature, literature of the Civil War, and works on Robert Gould Shaw and Elizabeth Akers Allen.

He loved his family and the game of golf. He will be sorely missed.

If you desire to make a donation in his memory, the family requests they be directed to the UMF Mantor Library. Arrangements are under the direction of Adams~McFarlane Funeral & Cremation Services.