Robert Leo Allen was born August 26, 1921 in Pacolet Mills, South Carolina. Mr. Allen graduated from Wofford College in 1943 and served our country during World War II in France as part of the Normandy invasion. He married Mary Buice Allen on August 23, 1946. They are the parents of five girls, Janet, Novelyn, Kay, Judy and Angela. He retired from a long and successful forty year career with Southern Bell Company. After a long life, Mr. Allen died March 10, 2020 at the age of 98.
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