Laura Jeanne Maurice Allen Frost

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LAURA JEANNE MAURICE ALLEN FROST

Of Medford, OR, died November 8, 2006.

Born in Portland, OR on March 29, 1919, she was the descendant of pioneers who settled in Oregon in the 1860s after sailing around Cape Horn from Maine. Her father was a GMAC executive whose moves took them to Illinois and the East Coast. While living in Bethesda, she attended Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School before transferring to Penn Hall, Chambersburg, PA, and then Monticello Seminary in Illinois. She graduated from Edgewood Park Junior College in 1939 and then attended the University of Oregon, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and studied art under Robert Motherwell.

Marrying Franklin S. Allen Jr., then a LT USAAC, in 1940, their World War II letters and photographs were published in "The Franklin Allens and the Martin Marauder: A Wartime Love Story", for the AF Historical Foundation in 1980. Frank's military assignments included Aberdeen Proving Ground, the Pentagon, Germany, Edwards AFB in the 50s where they befriended Mercury astronauts and pioneering test pilots, Madison, Wisconsin and Colorado Springs. In addition to their surviving children, Jeanne Louise Newell of McLean, Franklin S. Allen, III of McLean, Judith Nicklin Scholtz of Falls Church, Barbara June Allen of Alexandria and Ralph Maurice Allen of Sterling; there are seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Active in civic affairs, Jeanne was a Girl Scout leader while her children were young and helped reactivate the German Girl Guides. Participating in Officers Wives Clubs and Family Services, she also earned over 8000 hours as a Grey Lady in military hospitals. After moving to Oregon and marrying Edwin C. Frost, Lt. Col. USAF, in 1975, she earned 4000 hours volunteering for Providence Hospital Senior Services. She was a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, and had been a deacon at Presbyterian Churches in Jacksonville and Phoenix, OR.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on January 11 at Quantico National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Dogs for the Deaf, Central Point, OR 97502; Culpepper Gardens Development Fund, 4435 N. Pershing Dr., Arlington, VA 22203; or St. John's Episcopal Church, McLean, VA.