TOEWS ALLEN L

WO1 Allen L. Toews was a potential VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 12/21/2007 at the age of 64.6
Warrenton, VA
Flight Class 66-21
Date of Birth 05/25/1943
Served in the U.S. Army
Served in Vietnam with 282 AVN in 1968
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More detail on this person: Allen l. Toews,64, of Warrenton died December 21 en route from his rural residence to the Ashland Bassets' hunt kennels. Born May 25, 1943, in York, Nebraska, Mr. Toews has been a Warrenton resident since 1984 and was joint master and huntsman of the Ashland pack at the time of his death and had been a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee for the Institiute Farm at Aldie, Virginia, the headquarters of the National Beagle Club and Basset Hound Committee. Ashland Bassets was founded as the private hunting pack of the late Mrs. Amory Carhart of Ashland Farm and had been recieved from her when she retired from the hunt field by the late Mrs. Harcourt (Scottie) Lees, the late Mrs. Francis (Byrd) Green, and the late Mrs. Bernie (Helen Ashe) Falls with instructions that the pack be maintained as a public fixture to preserve the Virginioa heritage of the sport of foot chasing rabbits with hounds. A member since 1989, Mr. Toews became Master and Huntsman of the Ashland pack in 1991 and was a respected figure in the hunting world because of his devotion to his pack and his sense of organization toward the betterment of the sport and the basset breed.

Mr. Toews was a retired commericial helicopter pilot who began his flight career during the Vietnam War, serving two tours in Viet Nam as a combat command pilot and an instructor, and was then stationed at Wertheim-am-Main, Germany before returning to civilian life as a commericial agricultural and instructor pilot. He is survived by his wife, Kathleen King, of the home and two sisters: Mrs. Merlin (Evelyn) Volkmer of rural Schickley, Nebraska and Miss Marty Toews of Lincoln, Nebraska. His parents predeceased him.

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