George
Alonzo, the oldest son of Raymond G. Alonzo, Jr. and
Evangelina Paredes Alonzo, was a talented musician who
when young played Mariachi music at Six Flags Over Texas
and the Las Columnas Mexican Restaurant, at the Marriott
Motor Hotel, with his mother, Evangelina, and his
brothers, Ernest and Richard. In 1964, together with
drummer Steve Sanchez, George and his brothers formed a
Top 40 cover band called The Pagans. Throughout the
1960s, they regularly played for dances at the Farmers
Branch Rec Center's Teen Club, the short-lived Illiad in
Carrollton, the Starlight Roller Rink in Dallas, and
other places.George was also a talented cartoonist, whose work was published in The Lion's Tale, the R. L. Turner High School newspaper, and Mojo, a humor magazine that he and three school friends briefly published in 1966.
At Turner High School, George was also a member of the Folksinging Club. He was graduated on June 2, 1967.
In 1971, in Denton, George married Dallas Bailey. They were divorced, in Dallas, in 1980.
