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Robert L. Allen Jr., golf tournament organizer, 77By CRAIG BASSE © St. Petersburg Times, published November 23, 2000 ST. PETERSBURG -- Robert L. "Bob" Allen Jr., a retired insurance broker and a figure in the city's golf world, has died at age 77. Mr. Allen, a past president of Lakewood Country Club and the St. Petersburg Golf Association, died Wednesday (Nov 22, 2000). Under treatment for liver cancer since 1996, he died at home after a short illness, his wife said. For a decade in the 1970s and 1980s at Lakewood, he developed and ran the Stan Musial Invitational Golf Tournament for the St. Louis Cardinals' Hall of Famer. He was the son of the former Ruby Forman, a homemaker, and a one-time circuit-riding Methodist minister, Dr. Robert Lee Allen Sr. Born in Tampa, he grew up there and in West Palm Beach and Miami, where his father served churches. He enrolled at Duke University but left school to join the Army Air Forces after World War II broke out. While he was in the service, his parents moved in 1944 to St. Petersburg. His father, who had been pastor of a mission church in Seminole Heights for 14 years, began 11 years as pastor of St. Petersburg's First United Methodist Church. After the war, Mr. Allen left the Army Air Forces as a second lieutenant and returned to Duke. He played the trombone in marching and dance bands and received a degree in English in 1947. He was a past president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni, the local chapter of the Duke University Alumni Association and the Squires Club. He was a member of the Pollywogs, St. Petersburg Bat Boys and First United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Betty B.; two sons, Robert L. III, St. Petersburg, and Eddie B., Jacksonville; a daughter, Cathy Allen Keith, St. Petersburg; a sister, Margaret LeCompte, St. Petersburg; and five grandchildren. The family suggests memorial contributions to Duke University Liver Cancer Research, Attn: Dr. Bryan Clary, P.O. Box 90542, Durham, NC 27708, or to the Duke University "Iron Dukes," P.O. Box 90542, Durham, N.C. 27708, or Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast, 300 East Bay Drive, Largo, FL 33770. Friends can call Monday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Anderson-McQueen Funeral Homes & Cremation Tribute Center-Ninth Street Chapel, 2201 Dr. M.L. King (Ninth) St. N, St. Petersburg. A funeral service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church of St. Petersburg, 212 Third St. N, with burial at Royal Palms Cemetery. Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home is in charge. -- Information from Times files was used in this obituary.
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