JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Allen Lavonne Chauncey, age 86, passed away Sunday, October 12, 2025, at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla., following a brief illness.
He was born September 8, 1939, in Fairfax, Ware County, Ga., to the late William Sylvester Chauncey and Emma Riberon Chauncey.
He attended grammar school in Ware County and his family moved to Brantley County in his teen years where he graduated from Hoboken High
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School in 1957. Furthering his education, he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in business from Jones College in Jacksonville, and a Doctorate of Christian Education from North Florida Theological Seminary, also in Jacksonville.
Immediately after graduating from high school, Chauncey enlisted in the U.S. Army where he spent the majority of his service in Boston, Mass., New York City, and Germany. After his discharge, he moved from Waycross to Jacksonville where he met up again with and married Mary Alice Stone in 1963. Ms. Stone had attended the same high school as her husband in Hoboken. They enjoyed 62 beautiful years together before God called him home.
Chauncey loved working in the field of electricity and began a career with Jacksonville Electric Authority working as a meter man. He held various other titles with JEA, and retired there in 1999 as a meter technician in charge of commercial properties in Jacksonville.
He loved fishing and shrimping, and spent many happy hours with his brother and nephews at different fishing holes around Florida and Georgia. He also loved to travel, visiting 33 countries and all but three states in the U.S.
Chauncey was also involved with the Miss Jacksonville Scholarship Pageant, serving as a judge for scholarship pageants in Jacksonville and surrounding counties. He was a devout Christian and served as a Deacon at Faith Memorial Baptist Church in Jacksonville.
His membership is now at Normandy Park Baptist Church, also in Jacksonville, where he was active in many of its programs. After his retirement he began a ministry to the residents of local Jacksonville nursing homes, visiting them frequently to encourage, support and pray for them. Chauncey would ask the staff to point him toward those who were lonely, and who had no one that would come to visit, and he made those people his top priority.
In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his brothers, William Chauncey, Willis Chauncey, Wildon Chauncey, W.S. Chauncey Jr., and sisters, Nettie Johns, Sara Gillis, Mary Parish, Rilla Cox, Ollie Shank, and Arrie Dann.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Alice Stone Chauncey of Jacksonville; daughter Angela Chauncey Hawkinson (Dean) of Dallas, Ga.; grandchildren, Kelsey Hawkinson of Kennesaw, Ga., and Cameron Hawkinson of Cartersville, Ga., two sisters, Louise Illum, of Jacksonville, and Alma Foreman of Jupiter, Fla.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, October 24 at Normandy Park Baptist Church, Jacksonville.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 25 at Normandy Park Baptist Church. Interment will be held at 3 p.m. at High Bluff Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near Hoboken.
Hardage-Giddens, Riverside Memorial Park Funeral Home in Jacksonville is in charge of arrangements.