User:The4allens/sandbox/George John Allen

George John Allen was born October ninth, 1969, in Park Ridge, Illinois to George and Mary Allen. He was born the middle child and only boy, with an older sister, Gina, and younger sister, Jennifer. Gina died in a car crash as a teenager, but his younger sister Jen now works at New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Extended family includes: Grandmother Rosita Tullar, an ex show girl, who worked later as a real estate agent. Grandmother Rose Trausch, who worked on farm and ran a hot dog stand. 3 uncles, Bob, Clair and Tom. Bob now lives in Belize, Clair now lives in California, and Tom now lives in Illinois.

George played soccer through high school, as well as participating in band in middle school and freshman year of high school. He won homecoming king, and was fairly popular among his peers. As a teenager, he once got in trouble with the police for stealing street signs.

His family often vacationed to a cabin in Wisconsin, which is frankly more of a shack, given its outhouse and lack of running water and electricity. Also, dirt bikes happened.

Generally, George was a defiant child towards his parents, from turning off the intercom to rewiring a phone to his room.

Eighth grade and freshman year summer, George worked for the school transferring floppy discs to cassettes and the next cleaning. Later, George worked at hardware store, from sophomore year through freshman college summer.

George began college for an Electrical Engineering degree at Northern Illinois College, but dropped out/flunked out after first year. He took classes at community college and then returned to Illinois State and received a degree in Electrical Engineering Tech in 1992.

In 1996, at twenty-seven, George met his now-wife Michelle Elaine Allen (then Hunt) at Integrated Labeling Systems in Nashua, New Hampshire. He has now been married for 17 years as of December 2015 and has two children, Taylor and Jake Allen. Taylor is fifteen and Jake is twelve.