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In the early morning hours after his 62nd birthday, surrounded by his family, Jon Jarrett Allen peacefully went to heaven to join his dad Stephen Allen and his Savior Jesus Christ. Jon chose that joyful event to leave the earth and go to heaven after battling glioblastoma brain cancer for 18 months, which is the average length of survival time from that most aggressive cancer.
Jon graduated from Muskogee High School in 1979. He spent four years representing the school on a championship swimming team, specializing in the backstroke and he was chosen to represent Muskogee at Boys State his junior year. Jon joined the Navy after deciding college was not yet on his agenda, but that it could pay for medical school for him in the future. While in the Navy he received his associate's college degree. After his 20 years in active service and the reserves in the Navy, Jon graduated from the prestigious University of California San Diego. During his senior year Jon worked with four scientists from Japan striving to perfect the invention of artificial cartilage for knees.
After graduating from college with a degree in biomedical engineering, Jon worked for Invitrogen Technologies for 15 years specializing in DNA testing. He and a colleague invented the Zephyr machine that facilitates the most speedy testing of DNA samples. Those machines are still in use today.
Later Jon was pursued by Sorronto Therapeutics in San Diego, Ca. and he joined their team in search of a more efficient vaccine for all types of covid. He made sure that his part in the endeavor was completed and the vaccine was in international clinical trials before he sought medical help for bad headaches. A series of MRIs showed a mass in his brain called glioblastoma. It is assumed by the medical staffs that the seed for that cancer came from Jon's years in the Navy when he was on the aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson where he was in charge of the entire defense of the ship that carried 6,000-8,000 people. His office was in the belly of the ship adjacent to the nuclear material.
Jon was preceded in death by his father Stephen Allen, his grandparents Judge and Mrs. Robert Jarrett Allen of Lubbock, Tx. and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wieland of Canyon, Tx. and his inlaws Mr. and Mrs. Tolentino Medina of El Cajon, Ca.
Jon is survived by his wife Jaycee Medina Allen of Chula Vista, Ca.; his oldest son Neil and wife Rhea and grandson Cruz all of Irvine, Ca.; his three sons Jarrett, Nathaniel and Stephen also of Chula Vista, Ca.; his mother Tommye Allen of Muskogee, Ok.; his brother DeWitt Allen and Kay Howell of Muskogee, Ok.; his nephew Jesse Allen of Muskogee; his niece Lindsey Parnell, her husband Major and their son Myles of Tahlequah, Ok.; his sister Pamela Allen, her husband Doug Becker and their daughter Edan of San Francisco, Ca.; and three special aunts and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allen of Arlington, Tx., Mr. and Mrs. Harry Drake of Grand Prairie, Tx., Mr. and Mrs. Corky Dawson of Granbury, Tx., many adoring Texas cousins, plus Medina sisters and brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews.
Jon Allen leaves his mark on the world by his scientific endeavors, and he is said by his family to have been a perfect husband and a perfect father. He enjoyed coaching baseball and soccer teams for his sons in their youth and always in playing golf with his wife Jaycee. Even though he had traveled around the world twice while in the Navy, sightseeing in hundreds of towns with ports, and his having traveled internationally for years in promoting the Zephyr machine which was sold worldwide, the Embassy Suites in Oklahoma City was his favorite place to visit on many of the 34 years of family reunions on Thanksgiving weekends. He loved interacting with his large extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, and the entire staff at the hotel. The years that his family was able to attend was the highlight of those years for Jon.
A Celebration of Life will honor Jon which will be held April 14th in San Diego, Ca., and later a Navy honors service and a family excursion boat trip will occur in order to scatter his ashes in the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean that Jon loved. His life was a life well lived, although shortened by cancer.
Jon's mantra and philosophy of, "It is what it is," will always be heard in the minds of his family members, business associates and friends.
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