Mrs. Peggy D. Allman's Obituary
Peggy Diane Allman January 14th, 1957 - October 30, 2024
Diane is survived by Heather Cherie Griffin, Steffen Garrett Miller, and Christian Raynor Las
Dulce, her three children, and Chelsea Edge, Haley McLamb, Aubrey Griffin, Allie Griffin,
Nolan Miller, Wyatt Las Dulce, Landon Las Dulce, and Tristan Las Dulce, her eight
grandchildren and her husband Malcolm Allman.
Diane, as she preferred to be known, was born at St Agnes Hospital in Baltimore MD to Tommy
and Evelyn Wickline. She had three brothers, Mike, Ronald, and Keith, and a sister, Patty. She
spent her early childhood in the Baltimore neighborhood of Canton. She often worked at a
corner store in order to provide lunch money for her siblings. This was the first display of the
selflessness that Diane would come to be known for. Later on she made sure that her brother
Keith, as he was dying, had a car that he could use to get himself and his mother around to any
appointments they might have. Also, as he became weaker, she made sure he had money by
paying him for painting at her house that he was not expected to complete. It was DeeDee’s way
of looking out for her little brother. At the holidays, she made sure to make little bags of goodies
for the neighbor children. And whenever she made shrimp macaroni salad, she would always
“make too much” and would share it with her friends.
In 1980, Diane enlisted in the US Army in order to provide care for her daughter, Heather
Cherie. In this capacity, she soon found more than a job as her career in the Army progressed.
She spent time in Honduras where she showed her heart again. She was riding in a truck with
several other members of her unit when one of those soldiers thought it would be fun to throw a
can of food at a child running alongside the truck, begging for food. This so angered and
provoked Diane that she began to beat this soldier, eventually throwing him from the moving
truck. The soldier at first wanted to press charges, but the sargaent told him that he was lucky it
was not worse. She also served two tours of duty in Korea. While in South Korea, she had been
selected to be one of the Olympic torch bearers. When not abroad on duty she was stationed at
Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
Her career then entered the corporate world when she joined MCI Telecommunications as a
crisis manager. She soon rose and when MCI was purchased by WorldCom, she transferred to
UUNET and came to the DC area in order to be near her father as he was dying. Soon thereafter
the company came to be under Verizon’s control and she was promoted to Senior Manager. In
2008, she left Verizon to become a Correctional Officer at Maryland Correctional Institute in
Hagerstown, a position she held until she left with a medical disability and she retired soon
thereafter
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