Laura Joe Allen

September 6, 1946 - January 29, 2010

Laura Joe Maceiras Allen, 63 of Westminster, Maryland died Friday, Jan. 29, 2010, at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster, MD. Born September 6, 1946, in Port Arthur, Texas she was the daughter of Joe M. Maceiras, of Port Arthur, and the late Laura Mae Bouvier Maceiras. She was the wife of Benny C. Allen, whom she married May 14, 1977. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1965. She had been a homemaker. She had also been a hairdresser and a cafeteria worker at Christina High School in Newark, Delaware. She had been a Brownie and Girl Scout Troop Leader and she had always performed volunteer work at the schools, her children attended. She and her husband had also lived in Nederland and Houston, Texas before moving to Newark, DE., then she moved to Westminster to be closer to her grandsons. Surviving, in addition to her father and husband are son and daughter-in-law Andrew W. and Michelle Allen, of Westminster, Md.; daughter and son-in-Iaw Cody Ann and Patrick Robinson of Arlington, Va.; siblings and spouses Dolores Ann Maceiras, of Beaumont and Mary Ann Broussard and husband Bobby of Port Neches, and Joe M. Maceiras, II and wife Brenda of Katy and grandsons Ty and Austin Allen of Westminster, Md. She was the daughter-in-Iaw of Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Allen, Jr. of Port Neches, TX. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the American Diabetes Association, 800 Wyman Park Drive, Suite 110, Baltimore, MD., 21211; or to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 5216 Glen Allen, VA 23058-5216. Online condolences may be made to www.claytonthompson.com