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Bruce Allison

Bruce C. Allison
Born 1940s.
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
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Died 2000s.
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Obituary

A funeral service for long time Sandy resident, Bruce Allison will be held in the chapel of Sandy Funeral Home on Saturday, March 12, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. A private cremation will follow.

Bruce Allison was born on January 10, 1944 in Marshfield, Oregon (renamed Coos Bay that same year) where his mother was staying with her parents Rocco and Palmina Biasca while his father was serving in Europe during WW II.

After the war, his parents moved to Portland to live, but Bruce spent many happy summers at his grandparents dairy farm on Coos River and at his Aunt Jo and Uncle Everett Messerlie's farm on Stock Slough Road. This colored his whole life and gave him a desire to have his own piece of land in the country.

When Bruce and Winni met and married in 1969, they both found that they had the same dream and they bought 5 acres of land in Sandy. They built a daylight basement and moved in, in 1973. The only running water was the toilet for the first two months. Over the years they worked on this dream of theirs.

They adopted Richard Allison in 1974 when he was 7 1/2 weeks old. Then in 1975, they adopted James Allison at 5 years old.

Bruce worked at Boeing of Portland for 39 1/2 years. He started out in burring right out of High School. Then he worked on the 8 spindle Milling machines. Later, he went into the office as a Manufacturing Engineer for the last 20 years. He loved his job and it gave him much satisfaction. He had many surgeries on his feet and struggled much of his adult life with crippling foot pain.

Bruce and Winni joined a group that was started by Lutheran family services, called Quest. Here they found many life long friends and learned many life, and people skills that helped in many area of their lives.

In 1979, Bruce had an idea for a house to put on top of their daylight basement. Bruce always had big dreams for his life and home, so he began a whole new chapter of their lives. Bruce took his truck and trailer to pick up parts for his dream house and picked up many treasures. There are 8ft. tall doors out of the old Salem post office in the hallway. A beam that held up the forms at the 102nd Street over pass on I-205 Freeway when it was being built. Windows out of a house on 4th and Van Buren in Corvallis, known as the hippie house in its last days. An entrance way door out of an old hotel in Klamath Falls. There are beams from the Chemawa Indian School and the chimneys are made out of bricks from the Mt. Hood Community College class. He even found hard wood flooring out of the McMinnville High School gym. Then Bruce designed a small cabin based on the part of the house known as the solar loft. (a beautiful place to grow houseplants).

Bruce spent much of his time building up his business Simple Solar Works, going to many Solar Fairs in Oregon, Washington, and California. The whole Family pitched in and raised their first pig named Ooton ooten. Both boys raised pigs with the Sandy prime cuts 4-H group and went to the Clackamas County Fair every year to sell their pigs. Bruce raised pigs on his own after the boys left home. Over a 20-year period there were 70 pigs raised on the Allison acres.

Bruce loved spending time with his grandchildren and was lucky that they lived close. Many young people came to spend time at the Allison's over the years. So much so that their home is called camp Allison by many friends. Bruce is blessed to call many people friend.

Surviving is his wife Winifred "Winni" of Sandy; his sons, James Allison of Spokane, Washington and Rick Allison of Sandy; his brother, Dennis Allison of Camas, Washington and 7 grandchildren.[1]

Sources

  1. Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - Saturday, March 12, 2005 - GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com/doc/obituaries/obit/16364C9377EA0A88-16364C9377EA0A88 : accessed 18 June 2017)
  • Oregon, Marriage Indexes, 1906-1924, 1946-2008 (Ancestry.com)
  • Oregon State Library; Oregon Death Indexes, 1971-2008; Reel Title: State of Oregon Death Index; Year Range: 2001-2005 (Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008 - Ancestry.com)

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