We commend our brother, Terrence Meredith Allen, Priest, to God and give thanks for his ministry in our diocese and in the Anglican Church of Canada.
Terry died on Saturday, 20 August 2022. He is survived by Barbara, his wife (two-weeks shy of 70 years of marriage), their son Matthew and their daughter Leanne Sinclair and her daughters Emily and Anika and grandson Noah.
Terry was educated at the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science in 1954, and at Anglican Theological College at UBC, where he earned an STB in 1965.
He was ordained to the diaconate in 1965 and to the priesthood in 1966 in the Diocese of Kootenay. Terry served at Chase and at Castlegar-Kinnaird-Robson in the Diocese of Kootenay before transferring to the Diocese of New Westminster. He was the rector of St Helen, Point Grey from 1974 to 1979.
Terry was also a mining engineer, and he and Barbara lived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for a time in the 1980s, where he worked for Placer Development and where he occasionally took services at St John’s Cathedral, Port Moresby. They later returned to Vancouver where he was the Environmental Coordinator for Placer Dome before retiring to Nanaimo and then Surrey, BC.
Terry was a member of St Mark, Ocean Park.
Interment of ashes in St Mark – Ocean Park Memorial Garden will follow later in the year when arrangements can be made for family to gather.
Please remember our brother Terry in your prayers and at the altar.