Kathleen Allaker, known to friends as Kathy, Kat, and Queen, most recently residing in Lansdale, PA, USA, died peacefully on November 11, 2024, at 83 years of age.

Kathy was born December 1, 1940, to Norman and Mary (nee Kell) Allaker in Sedgefield in the County of Durham, England.

She grew up in the village of Chilton with her brother John (now deceased), developing a strong sense of adventure and self-assuredness that propelled her as a young adult to travel to Milan, Italy to work as an au pair.  In 1964, in exchange for passage to the U.S. via the Queen Mary, she contracted to work as a domestic for a year.

After completing her contract, she went to work for Prudential Insurance in Newark, NJ. In 1969, she transferred with Prudential to PA when Prudential opened a new home office there.  She retired from there in 1998; and in 2001, she settled in Maine where she led an active life doing the things she loved (e.g. photography, hiking with her dogs Billy and Jeter and gardening) and doing new things like kayaking and line dancing.

Surviving Kathy in England are niece Julie and nephews Richard, Phillip and Craig and great nieces and nephews. Preceding her in death are her mother, Mary; her father, Norman; her brother, John; and her niece, Susan.

Donations in her memory may be made to:

St. Judes Research Hospital for Children
501 St. Judes Pl
Memphis , TN 38105

Shriners Hospital for Children
Box 31356
Tampa, FL 33631

Mid Coast Humane Society 
190 Pleasant St.
Brunswick, Maine  04011 

Bucks County SPCA 
1665 Street Rd.
New Hope, PA. 18938