Timothy Earl "Tim" Allspach

1943 - 2023

Timothy "Tim" Earl Allspach was born the third of four children and oldest son to Homer E. and Mabel M. Allspach on October 6, 1943 in S. Charleston, West Virginia. Homer worked in the chemical industry and the family moved to Texas shortly before the infamous Texas City Disaster, on April 16, 1947, an ammonium nitrate explosion aboard freighters docked in the Texas City harbor. After a short residence in La Marque, the family moved to Dickinson where Tim grew up and resided until his high school graduation in 1961. After a freshman college year at Texas Lutheran in Seguin, Tim transferred to Cal Lutheran College where he graduated with a BA in Vocal Music in 1965 and continued his vocal music training at the University of Southern California with his M. Mus. degree in 1968, and began his PhD work until Vietnam redirected his life's musical ambition into the field of education. Tim taught the sixth grade in Lafourche Parish for two years before returning to Los Angles to resume his vocal ambitions. Faced with a dismal employment environment, Tim moved to New Orleans to acquire his Louisiana teaching certificate at Tulane. While student teaching during his Tulane program, he was offered a sixth grade position at Isidore Newman School in January 1972, where he remained until Katrina retired him from that employment in January, 2006. Tim grew to love New Orleans culture, people, food, and especially its musical heritage and depth of talent. He was able to perform at various local venues, and become employed part-time for over three decades with a marvelous local music club, the Maple Leaf Bar. It was that long employment and the personal associations he experienced that formed Tim's deep appreciation of New Orleans as the nation's, if not the world's, leading pool of popular musical talent. Tim was preceded in death by his parents Mabel M. Allspach and Homer E. Allapach, his sister, Judith Myree Allspach Wilber, and his brother George David Allspach. Tim is survived by his sister Elizabeth Ann Allspach Baber, his niece Serena Wilber Sherron, and his nephews Lawrence Wilber, Toby Wilber and Jason Wilber, and great niece, Evalyn Wilber and great nephews, Blake Sherron and Braden Sherron. A Celebration of Life for Tim Allspach will be held on Sunday, December 17, 2023 at the Maple Leaf Bar, 8316 Oak Street, New Orleans, Louisiana from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. The online guestbook is available at www.leitzeaganfuneralhome.com.