Scotty Allen

Scotty Ray Allen was born in Mountain Grove, Missouri, on May 26, 1966, to Bob and Doris (Hutsell) Allen. He passed from this life on April 6, 2023, at Cox Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. He was 56 years, 10 months, and 11 days of age.

Scotty grew up in Graff, Missouri, and attended Mountain Grove Schools. After graduating, he joined the United States Air Force and was stationed at Gosnell Air Force Base in Gosnell, Arkansas.

He returned to Graff in 1988 and was employed with Brown Shoe Company for a short while. He later worked at Hutchens Industries in the foundry.

In 1994, he joined the Wright County Sheriff’s Department as a commissioned deputy. He later attended academy where he was named Top Gun on the revolver. He served as a deputy until 1998.

In 2001, he married MaryBeth Arnold and they made their home on the family farm.

Scotty enjoyed genealogy, reading, hunting, spending time with his family and his beloved animals, Boone, Bindy, Osa and Squatch.

Scotty was preceded in death by his father, Bob Allen.

He is survived by his loving wife, MaryBeth, of the home, his mother, Doris Allen of Mountain Grove, Missouri, one sister, Sherri Ratterree and her husband, Ed, of Cabool, Missouri, one brother, Steve Allen and his wife, Diane, of Mountain Grove, Missouri, two step-children whom he loved as his own, John Elliott and his wife, Amber, of Paragould, Arkansas, and Alonda Jones and her husband, Lance, of Mountain Grove, Missouri, eight grandchildren, Lacy, Katie, Kiara (Owen), Reina, Kylee, Blane, Chase, and Azlyn, two great-grandchildren, Remington and Claire, one niece, Jenny Lawler, and a host of family and friends who will miss him tremendously.