Sharon Allen

1939 - 2025

Sharon Allen

August 10, 1939 - August 13, 2025

On August 13, 2025, Sharon Elizabeth Allen fell asleep in death.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at Stackhouse Moore Funeral & Cremation Services, Cambridge, Ill. Mark Larson of the Geneseo Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses will be officiating. As per her wishes, cremation rites have been accorded and private interment will be on Monday, September 15, 2025, in Evergreen Memory Garden, Kewanee, Ill. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m., on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to her family.

Sharon Elizabeth Van Hyfte was born on August 10, 1939 in Kewanee, the daughter of Anthony F. and Margaret D. (Clark) Van Hyfte. She was educated in the rural Buda, Ill., and Annawan, Ill. area and graduated from Annawan High School in 1957. Sharon married Frederick Wayne Allen on June 25, 1960 in Kewanee.

Sharon worked at Bond Walgreens while attending Moline Institute of Commerce. She later worked at Kewanee National Bank and Allen's Dairy in Kewanee, Michael-Osborne Dairy, Davenport, Iowa, Iowana Dairy, Bettendorf, Iowa, and last worked at Deere & Company, Moline, Ill., for almost 27 years until retiring in December, 2000. Sharon was a member of the Christian congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Geneseo, Ill., and was baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses on April 2, 2006.

Sharon loved spending time in the ministry with her Witness family and spiritual brothers and sisters sharing in the door to door preaching and teaching work, about Jehovah God's Kingdom, just as Jesus and the apostles did. One of the many things she enjoyed was going to Hillcrest Nursing Home on Wednesdays and conducting a weekly bible study with the residents there, sadly having to stop in 2020 due to the pandemic. Sharon still zealously preached the good news through letter writing. Speaking of Jehovah as much as she possibly could. Even while taking care of her dear husband Wayne, who preceded her in death on July, 22, 2024.

Those left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Suzette (Dirk) Wilkinson, Cambridge; son, Drew (Danell) Allen, Cambridge; grandchildren, Brandon (Lexxi) Wilkinson, Wenatchee, Wash., Kayla (Jeffery) Smith, Cambridge, Joey (Chad) Rose-Allen, Rock Island, Ill., Austin Allen, Cambridge, Katelynn (Andre) Toomer, Prophetstown, Ill., Emma (Leslie) Waters, Godley, Ill., and Hannah (Robby) Wittenauer, Cambridge; great-granddaughter, Everleigh Wilkinson; along with many spiritual grandchildren, Sarah Wells, Geneseo, Jen, Avery and Connor Vandevoord, Cambridge, and Sophie Boles, Colorado. Other survivors include siblings, Anthony (Pat) VanHyfte, Atkinson, Ill., Joseph VanHyfte, Sun Prairie, Wisc., sisters, Rosemary Maier, Sun Prairie, and Diane Medearis, Davenport.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne; parents; grandparents; brother, Kenneth Van Hyfte; sister-in-law, Ruth Ann Van Hyfte; and son, Michael Wayne. She longed for the day when she would see her dead loved ones again. Psalm 37:29 "The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it". John 5:28 – 29 "Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out."

Condolences may be expressed at www.stackhousemoore.com.

Stackhouse-Moore Funeral & Cremation Services

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Cambridge, IL 61238

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