Dennis Allsup
Dennis Eugene Allsup, 75, of Strawberry Point, Iowa, died on Wednesday, February 4, 2015, at the Strawberry Lutheran Home from Parkinson’s disease.
He was born April 7, 1939, in Aledo, Illinois, the son of Albert R. and Susan A. (Hajostek) Allsup.
The family moved between Illinois and Iowa, finally settling in Lisbon for many years, where Dennis graduated from high school in 1957.
On February 14, 1961, Dennis was united in marriage to Frances Kay Torson at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. Together they lived most of their married life in Volga until 1999, when their home flooded and they relocated to Strawberry Point.
Over the course of his working life Dennis worked at a variety of jobs: mechanic, painter, machinist, logger, sawmill repairman, and clam-diver among them.
People who knew Dennis often mentioned his exceptional mechanical aptitude to his children.