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Mary Audrey Allen Galloway

Birth
Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
17 Dec 2013 (aged 89)
California, USA
Burial
Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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Passed away in California after a long illness.

Daughter of Raymond H. and Ethel B. Allen.
Married William Donald Galloway October 26, 1944 in Crawfordsville. He preceded her in death in October 2002.
Survivors include son William Douglas Galloway, daughter Cynthia Anne Galloway and sister Jane Bozanich.
She was preceded in death by brothers Raymond and Richard Allen, and sister Harriet Ade.

When she turned 18, she moved to Washington DC and worked in the Pentagon as a civilian during World War II, eventually working in the liaison office of Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the the atomic bomb.
She studied art at herron School for Art in Indianapolis, and language classes at Berlitz in Washington, D.C. She enrolled at Purdue in the forties and earned her B.A. She briefly taught Spanish at North Montgomery High School.
She was one of the first women pilots in Crawfordsville in the 1940s. She was an accomplished artist and a charter member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. She raised horses until late in her life.
Her husband and his father, O. K. Galloway, operated the Dodge and American Motors car dealership on the corner of Market and Water Streets in Crawfordsville for over 50 years.

No services.
Passed away in California after a long illness.

Daughter of Raymond H. and Ethel B. Allen.
Married William Donald Galloway October 26, 1944 in Crawfordsville. He preceded her in death in October 2002.
Survivors include son William Douglas Galloway, daughter Cynthia Anne Galloway and sister Jane Bozanich.
She was preceded in death by brothers Raymond and Richard Allen, and sister Harriet Ade.

When she turned 18, she moved to Washington DC and worked in the Pentagon as a civilian during World War II, eventually working in the liaison office of Robert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the the atomic bomb.
She studied art at herron School for Art in Indianapolis, and language classes at Berlitz in Washington, D.C. She enrolled at Purdue in the forties and earned her B.A. She briefly taught Spanish at North Montgomery High School.
She was one of the first women pilots in Crawfordsville in the 1940s. She was an accomplished artist and a charter member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. She raised horses until late in her life.
Her husband and his father, O. K. Galloway, operated the Dodge and American Motors car dealership on the corner of Market and Water Streets in Crawfordsville for over 50 years.

No services.


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