Tributes pour in for much-loved pillar of East Kilbride community

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Tributes have poured in for a pillar of the East Kilbride community who fought passionately for what he believed in. Joe Allan passed away at the age of 87 at Hairmyres Hospital recently.At the heart of many a campaign, he was instrumental in creating the East Kilbride History Society with late wife, Jean, and was also a lynchpin of Westwood Community Council and served on and chaired East Kilbride Housing Forum.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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The family moved to Dennistoun area of Glasgow and he attended Golfhill Primary School and Whitehill Secondary School.Joe married Jean in 1957 in Glasgow and they remained together for 56 years until she died in 2013.In 1959 Joe joined the Territorial Army as a medic with the Royal Army Medical Corps and rose to the rank of Corporal.He was immensely proud of his service in the Army and regularly wore the RAMC emblem on his blazer and tie and was a supporter of the British Legion.Joe and Jean moved to Franklin Place in East Kilbride in 1971 to be near Joe's dad, and they spent the rest of their lives there.

His first career was in the furniture business where he started out in Wylie Hills Department Store in Glasgow. Later he was hired at Courts Furniture Store in East