Allison Clough Weber

Allison Clough Weber’s life was full of action, adventure, creativity and compassion. She was a daring and skillful rock climber, but also used those skills in mountain rescue operations as an emergency medical technician. She studied theater arts and graphic design at the University of California, Santa Cruz, but shifted focus and in 1987 graduated from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. She completed her residency at the University Medical Center in Tucson, where she met her husband, Dan, who was an emergency nurse and flew a Medevac helicopter.

Allison was born in Oakland, California, in 1951. Her parents were Ray William Clough and Shirley Claire Potter.

Allison became a member of Pima Meeting in December 1991. In her application for membership she wrote: “To meet silently with people of faith and similar values has been a source of strength and inspiration to attend to my own leadings and Inner Light. In the Community of Quakers I have found a greater Voice to speak on behalf of justice and a more competent body to do its works.”

Dan and Allison’s twin daughters, Brooke and Morgan, born in 1990, for a while attended First Day School. (Another young Friend of that time remembers them bringing along a dog, too!) During her residency in Tucson, Allison helped establish a clinic as part of the Sanctuary movement for Central American refugees. She set up a private medical practice in northwest Tucson, but also obtained a Master’s in Public Health and worked in several rural towns in Arizona. The family moved to Flagstaff in 2002, and she expanded her own education again with a Master’s in Anthropology, saying, “Medical anthropology is the most intellectually rewarding field I have studied.” She then worked with a rural medical practice, having concern for those with limited access to services. In 2012, she joined the Indian Health Service, often working on the Navajo Reservation. In Coconino County she was also for a time appointed to the Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team.

Although she had moved from Tucson and wasn’t attending a Meeting, Allison expressed appreciation for her grounding with Quakers, as well as for her strong marriage with Dan.

Allison died in a car crash in northern Arizona on October 17, 2019, at the age of 68. She is survived by her husband, Dan Weber of Flagstaff, and their daughters, Morgan Weber (wife Angie) of Ketchikan, AK, and Brooke Weber of Port Townsend, WA; by her brother Douglas Clough (wife Linda) of Graham, WA, and sister Meredith Jacobs (husband Ken) of Cottonwood, AZ.

Allison was a glowing, compassionate light in this world.

Approved at Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business 10th Day, Eighth Month, 2025