Belle Fourche - Dean W. Allen, 77, Belle Fourche and formerly of the Opal area, died Tuesday, May 14, 2013 in Aztec, NM. Dean Weslie Allen was born May 25, 1935 in Sturgis, SD to Clarence and Emma (Shafer) Allen. They Lived on Clarence's home place at Opal, SD. He went to a country school located about one mile - as the crow flies - from his home and then he went to Faith to high school. The best time that he had during high school was riding bulls in the rodeos. After his junior year, 1952, he joined the Navy. He was an E3 Electrician on the USS Dixie during the Korean Conflict. While stationed in San Diego, 1954, he met and married Betty Delamater. They had two children, Dean Harold, 1956 and La Deana Lea, 1958. In 1956 Dean received an honorable discharge, from the Navy, after being injured when his ship was hit with a torpedo. After the Navy, he traveled around for quite awhile working many different types of jobs. He worked in the oil field, managed and cooked in some restaurants, electrical and carpentry work, road construction, head "powder monkey" while dynamiting the silos for the missile sites, and so on. . . In 1960, he met Annette Bean and had a daughter, Jo Ann. In 1961, Dean and Elaine were married in Rapid City. During their first years of marriage, they worked for Norman and McGee Vansickle a number of times, cut bug trees for the forest service and other jobs. In 1968, they had Laura Annette (Laurie) and then bought his home place from his father. Dean raised cows, sheep, and wheat and put up lots of hay. He also ground hay and sprayed crops with a plane, a pickup sprayer and a spray-coop. Dean always believed in working hard and then playing hard. He loved to hunt, trap, fish, camp with friends, riding snowmobile, motorcycles and anything else that associated with a motor and fun. Laurie remembers snowmobiling one whole winter and catching over 100 coyotes and over 70 fox. Dean and Elaine sold the place to the Dwayne Vig family in 1992 and moved to Belle Fourche where he presently resides. He recently reconnected with Annette Bean and was visiting her at her home in Aztec, NM, where he passed away in his sleep on May 14, 2013. Survivors include a son, Dean (Carmen) Allen Jr., Oregon; three daughters, Laurie (LaMaure) Kost, Parkston, LaDeana Allen, Citrus Heights, CA, JoAnn McCeig, Whitewater,CO; eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Elaine. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 16, 2013 at Black Hills Funeral Home in Sturgis. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 23, at Grace Lutheran Church in Sturgis with Rev. Herbert B. Cleveland officiating. Burial will follow at 11:30 a.m. at Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis with military honors provided by the Sturgis Veteran's Honor Guard and the South Dakota Army National Guard.