Amelia Allende

Amelia Jiménez Allende, 94 passed away peacefully on July 30th, 2022, surrounded by loving family.

Born in San Jose, Costa Rica, she was the daughter of Arturo Jiménez Flores and Hortensia Santos Bolandi.

Amelia was among the first women to graduate from the School of Pharmacy at la Universidad de Costa Rica, in San Jose, Costa Rica. She later served her country as a foreign diplomat, first as an attaché to the Embassy of Costa Rica in Madrid, Spain and later as Consul and subsequently Consul General of Costa Rica in New Orleans, Louisiana.

On May 29, 1958 she was united in marriage to Octavio Allende, Jr. at the Church of Our Saviour on Park Avenue in Manhattan, NY. A happy union that would last 32 years, until the untimely death of Octavio in 1990.

Left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Mercedes Allende, her son Robert E. Allende, her granddaughters, Amelia Allende Mendes and Christina Claire Allende and grandson, Robert O. Allende. She will be deeply missed and never forgotten by all who knew and loved her. A devote Catholic, her final resting place will be in the columbarium of Saint Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Apex, North Carolina.