January 29, 2021
Suellen Gallamore, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend of many folks across this great land, passed away peacefully at home on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, of complications due to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. She was surrounded by her husband Robert, her sons Scott and Greg, wonderful daughter-in-law Beth, and her grandsons Cole, Harrison and Will, with her puppy dog resting on her lap, as she wanted.
Suellen was born in 1943 to Blondina Ellison Long and Paul Robinson Long, in Middletown, Ohio, while her father was away on active duty as a lieutenant and tank commander in the U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division. Paul landed on Utah Beach two weeks after the D-Day invasion, and fought in the Battle of Northern France and the Battle of the Bulge. He also served unofficially as the division’s piano entertainer, passing his keyboard and vocal talents on to baby Sue, who took piano lessons as a child, and inherited her father’s ear for musi