Our heartfelt wishes go out to the family of our
wonderful volunteer Susan Alleman and Amy Alleman.
You worked so hard to help with Operation Ensuring
Christmas 08 Concert to make the stage so beautiful, and
collect 100s of Christmas cards and Christmas stockings
made by your grandchildren for our troops. May the
Lord bless you with peace and comfort. Our love to
all your family. HYRUM, Utah — The mother of a Fort Wainwright, Alaska, soldier killed in Iraq remembered him as someone who worked hard to support his family and spent all his free time with them.
Susan Alleman said Wednesday at a memorial service for U.S. Cpl. Micheal Boyd Alleman of Utah that the 31-year-old’s “little family is his world.”
“He always worked at least two jobs,” she said. “When Micheal wasn’t working to support his family, he spent every waking moment doing things with them and being with them, really being with them.”
Alleman and two other Fort Wainwright soldiers died Feb. 23 in Balad, Iraq, after being attacked by insurgents with small arms fire.
Alleman was buried Wednesday at the Hyrum City Veterans Memorial Park in Utah.
He leaves behind a wife and two children. He taught fifth grade in Logan for more than a year before enlisting in the Army, and students from Nibley Elementary School lined the route between an LDS chapel and the cemetery on Wednesday.
Also killed were 21-year-old Cpl. Michael L. Mayne of Burlington Flats, N.Y., and 21-year-old Pfc. Zachary R. Nordmeyer of Indianapolis. All three were assigned to the 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division based at Fort Wainwright.
Alleman moved to Utah in 1998 and got a degree in education from Utah State University.
His mother said he planted 5,000 trees as part of his Eagle Scout service project in Georgia, where he went to high school and spent much of his youth.
He met his future wife, Amy, when they were working the graveyard shift at a grocery store. They married in 2002 and had two children, Kai, 6, and Kennet, 4.
“Micheal was not known for smiling a lot but when he and Amy met, he never stopped,” Susan Alleman said.
Amy Alleman said she and her husband never spoke harshly to each other.
“How can I speak unkindly of the one person who encourages me to develop talents I didn’t even know I had?” she said. “To the one person who worked three jobs so I could stay home to raise our sons and never once complained about it.”
An Army spokesman said Alleman and the two soldiers in his unit received a posthumous promotion to corporal following their deaths