George Follmer Biography
Follmer was born in Phoenix on January 27, 1934, but it was not long before his father, an engineer for a company that made flour mills, moved the family to suburban Los Angeles. “I did okay in high school, when I focused on books instead of girls,” Follmer remarks.
He delayed college until he’d served in the Army following the Korean war where he was a company clerk for an intelligence outfit in Bavaria, Germany. After the Army Follmer earned a business degree from Pasadena City College and found work selling fire and casualty insurance, married and became the father of a son and two daughters.
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