Joy Beatrice (Austin) Allmon
Obituaries
Daily Sentinel page 3D - December 22, 2019
Joy Beatrice Allmon, age 92,
of Grand Junction, Colorado,
passed away at Mantey Heights
Rehabilitation & Care Center
on Sunday, December 8, 2019.
She was born the second of four
children on November 10, 1927,
to Clarence “Jack” Austin and
Delores (Richardson) Austin.
A celebration of Joy’s life will be officiated by Rev. Larry Kettle
at The Rock Church, 2170 Broadway, Grand Junction, Colorado,
on December 27, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., interment to follow at Eckert
Cemetery, in Eckert, Colorado.
As a young girl, Joy attended school at the Surface Creek School
while living at the “old home place” on the Grand Mesa. After
graduation from Eckert High School in 1944, she graduated from
cosmetology school in Denver, Colorado, and opened her own
beauty shop in Cedaredge.
In 1947 she met the love of her life, Ernest Milton Allmon, and
they were married on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1948. In the
early years of Joy and Ernie’s marriage, they lived in Eckert, Idaho
Springs, and Pueblo, Colorado. In 1955 they moved to New Mexico,
where they raised their family. Although they loved New Mexico
and the wonderful, close friends they made there, they always
considered Colorado home and moved back in the early 1970’s.
Joy spent her married life as a homemaker, keeping books for her
husband’s business, sewing, cutting hair, or cleaning the church. She
worked side-by-side with her husband renovating two homes, even
helping to dig out a foundation to remodel one of them. Whatever
task that came her way, she embraced it wholeheartedly.
She was a wonderful daughter, wife, mother, and friend who was
always ready to help, listen, or lend a cup of sugar.
She and her husband believed that teaching children about faith
in Jesus was foundational. Wherever they lived she was active in
church, working as a Sunday school teacher, and assisting with
vacation bible school well into her late 70’s.
Joy is survived by her son, Scott (Shawna) Allmon of
Grand Junction; Kathie Allmon of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma;
grandchildren, Jeff Allmon of Phoenix, AZ; Jennifer O’Brien of
Tacoma, Washington; Beth Simonich of Denver; Mark Zahniser of
Denver, and Michael Zahniser of Grand Junction, and six greatgrandchildren.
She was preceded in death by husband, Ernest; parents; siblings,
Clarence “Junior” Austin, Dorothy Stengel, and Jack Austin, and
son, Donald M. Allmon.
Services have been entrusted to Brown’s Cremation and Funeral
Service.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5B Death Notice - December 11, 2019
Joy Allmon, 92, of Mantey Heights in Grand Junction, died Dec. 8, 2019, at Mantey Heights.
