Tex Allen

) located at 400 Union Street, Apartment 303, Columbia (Lancaster County) PA USA 17512. Tex Allen (birth name: "David Roger Allen") was born in New York City NY USA, and raised since age 4 in Baltimore, MD USA. Tex (David Roger) Allen is a retired public relations manager, library manager, and Screen Actors Guild accredited major Hollywood studio movie actor. He completed college, graduate school, and military service, and worked in business and non-profit public relations jobs, govt. library manager and other govt.

The birth name of "Tex Allen" is David Roger Allen. He chose the professional actor name "Tex Allen" when he first joined the Screen Actors Guild to honor his father and ancestors who lived in and were born in Texas from the time the Allen family lived since 1834 when Jeremiah Allen emigrated to Texas from Tennessee to join the Texas Revolution movement which resulted in Texas' political independence from Mexico in 1836 and in the union of Texas with the United States Of America in 1845. The Allen family descended from Jeremiah Allen who arrived in Texas in 1834 continued to live in Texas for generations until Tex Allen's father, Foy Ray Allen (1911 - 2003) left Texas at age 16 in 1927 to live in New York City where his only son, David Roger Allen (Tex Allen) was born in 1944. Allens who lived in Texas between 1834 and 1927 fought successfully in the Texas War Against Mexico of 1836, the USA Mexican War of 1848, the Civil War (Allens fought for the Confederate States Of America in the Darnell Regiment Horse Cavelry Division of Wise County Texas), as Texas Rangers (the de-facto volunteer state police force of Texas in the 19th Century and later), and as USA soldiers during World War I. Tex Allen was the first member of the Allen family from which he descended to be born north of the Mason-Dixon Line since the Allen family Tex Allen descended from first arrived in Northampton County Virginia in 1645 led by Rev. Richard Alleyne IV (a Church Of England clergyman) as immigrants from England. Prior to Foy Allen's move to New York City in 1927, the Allen family had lived in the South, mostly in Virginia (1645 - 1795) and in Texas (1834 - 1927), and also in North Carolina and Tennessee in the period between 1795 and 1834.

Tex (David) Allen's maternal great-grandfather, Henry Hoppman, Senior (1837 - 1934), emigrated from Hanover, Germany to the USA in 1855 and served as a young man during the Civil War as a soldier for the Union army.After the Civil War, he worked for the New York Central Railroad, and rose to become the Chief Locomotive Engineer (who supervised all the engine drivers working for the New York Central Railroad).He drove the railroad engine in 1893 in western upstate New York USA which broke the 19th century land speed record for the world near Buffalo, New York, USA and achieved the speed of 113 miles per hour, a record which was cited in the Guiness Book Of World Records for many decades.He was an important leader in the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers for many years, and made his home in Schenectady, New York USA where he died in 1934 at the age of 97 years. His granddaughter, Dorothy Emmeline Hoppman Allen (1910 - 2004), Tex (David) Allen's mother, lived to her 95th year, and outlived her husband, Foy Ray Allen (1911 - 2003), Tex (David) Allen's father, by 20 months. .

Tex Allen's daily retirement schedule consists of 25 daily events, including 15 health events and 6 - 9 culture events (varies), which computes to a yearly grand total of roughly 8,500 events. These 25 daily events are intended to support the accomplishment of 12 Life Goals. The 12 Life Goals Tex (David) Allen seeks to achieve include: 1. Happiness 2. Contentment 3. Health (Measured 4 Ways) 4. Comfort 5. Leisure 6. Culture 7. Elegance 8. Mobility 9. Help From Others 10. Money Stability 11. Realistic, Street-Smart, Logical, Philosophical, Well Reasoned, Open Minded Thinking. 12. Living Space adequate for individual comfort and personal growth and functioning (also called "Proximics Living Space," also called "1905 non-political Lebensraum") meant to avoid the phenomenon of "behavioral sink," which occurs due to crowding and inadequate room for living and functioning.

Both of Tex Allen's parents (Foy Ray Allen 1911 - 2003) and Dorothy Hoppman Allen (1910 - 2005) were licensed private detectives for more than 30 years in Maryland USA. Tex Allen grew up in a "law enforcement" and "investigtion" household in Baltimore, Maryland USA. He observed his parents work during his upbringing, and this informed his actor work in police, law enforcement theme, and government investigation drama movies. Tex Allen's parents founded the Master Detective Agency (later "Master Security Inc.") in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland USA when Tex Allen was 12 years old. It still (2015) operates in Maryland and other USA states. His other police relatives include his great-grandfather, Henry Clay Allen (1857 - 1946), a "Texas Ranger" in Texas USA during the 1880's.

Treva Silverman (1936 - ), creator and head writer in 1970 of the Mary Tyler Moore TV series, became a good friend of Tex Allen in 1970, arranged for him to get an audition for a big movie about a famous Jewish comic, Lenny Bruce, who died of a drug overdose. Tex Allen wasn't the type (he was and is a blue eyed WASP leading man, romantic lead type.......nobody made movies about people like him in the counterculture late 1960's and early 1970's), and Dustin Hoffman ended up getting the part.The movie was titled LENNY (1971) and became a big hit. Lenny Bruce grew up in strip tease night clubs and became a comic famous later for using dirty words in his act, and getting arrested for his trouble. He became famous and a cultural symbol for free speech in night clubs, etc.Ironically, Tex Allen ended up actually working as a stand up comic in strip tease "burlesque" type night clubs in Pittsburgh, PA and Niagara Falls, Canada in the 1980's......15 years later.

Tex (birth name: "David") Allen worked with Don Simpson (1943 - 1996) in San Francisco CA USA at the Jack Wodell Associates Movie Publicity And Advertising Agency during 1969 and 1970 when both men were employed as regional field publicists and event planners for Warner Brothers, Universal, Paramount, and other movie studios marketing movies in the San Francisco CA Bay Area. Don Simpson (1943 - 1996) was hired 4 months after David Allen by Jack Wodell Associates Agency and this regional publicity work was his first employment in the movie industry. He later re-located to Hollywood CA USA and became head of movie production at Paramount Studios, and then partnered with Jerry Bruckheimer as an independent film producer of block-buster movies in the 1980s, including Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance, and Top Gun. He became a famous millionaire movie producer, and died at age 52 of heart attack. A biography about Don Simpson titled High Concept: Don Simpson And The Hollywood Culture Of Excess by Charles Fleming was published in 1998 and became a best seller book about life in Hollywood among movie producers in the 1980's and 1990's.

He was married to the late Deborah Benson Woodroofe (1945 - 2013) and is the father of Timothy Nicholas Allen (1977 - ) who lives (2020) at 662 Bauder Park Drive, Alden (Erie County), New York USA 14004, and also is the grandfather of Timothy N.

Tex (David) Allen's education before entering college: Baltimore City (Maryland USA) public schools (1949 - 1961). Elected to the National (High School) Honor Society at Baltimore City College (High) school 1960.

Tex (David) Allen studied singing, and also piano playing in the 1950's (classical and popular...4 years study of Marshall Anders of Baltimore MD USA), guitar in the 1960's (classical guitar study with John Quakenbush of San Francisco, CA USA, and self study for folk music guitar first using a Pete Seegar authored "How To Play The Guitar" book), and ukulele in the 2010's (self taught starting at age 70 in 2014). He also was a member of multi-part choirs starting at age 9 in 1953 at Northwood Elementary School, Baltimore, Maryland USA (Mrs. Mildred Rydberg, Choir Director), then at age 11 in 1955 at Woodbourne Junior High School (later name changed to Chinquepin Middle School), Baltimore, Maryland USA (Mrs. Jean Eglesider, Choir Director), and finally at age 15 in 1959 at the Baltimore City College (Public High School), Baltimore, Maryland USA (Mr. Trygve Rydberg and Mr. Sidney Wechsler, Choir Directors). He sang at age 17 as a baritone singer with the Baltimore, Maryland USA Symphony Orchestra Opera Program, including opera chorus singing from Bizet's Carmen opera, and Verdi's La Traviata opera. He was in each of the three choirs 2 years for a total of 6 years of extensive, rigorous choral singing and vocal chord buildup activity. He ended up with a very strong and resonant ("radio announcer type") voice which was useful and important in professional stage and movie actor work and also music public entertainment work he did during his adult years before he retired in 2014 at age 70, after which he continued to sing 30 songs daily accompanied by one of his two ukuleles (called the world's "easiest to learn instrument" by the Grove Dictionary Of Music in the "Ukulele" article). He was a musical entertainer at Antioch College Ohio during the early 1960's, and provided frequent solo singing performances and also group singing leadership for students during his college undergraduate years.

The very first amateur movie Tex (David) Allen acted in was a 1952 improvised color 8 mm film photographed and directed by Foy Ray Allen (1911 - 2003), Tex Allen's race track detective movie enthusiast father, photographed at Pikes Peak Colorado's grave site memorial to Buffalo Bill Cody (located near Colorado Springs, Colorado). Tex Allen's family was on a 1952 summer holiday during the visit to the summit of Pike's Peak in 1952. Tex Allen engaged in an improvised "Master Of Ceremonies" actor performance role (at age 8 in 1952) scripted and directed by his father, Foy Allen, who was working at the time as a Throughbred Racing Association accredited race track plain clothes detective in Littleton (Denver), Colorado during the summer of 1952. Tex Allen's father, Foy Allen, was employed Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau (also called "the FBI of horse racing), a subsidiary of the national Thoroughbred Racing Association, then headquartered in New York City (Manhattan), NY USA.. Tex Allen was 8 years old in 1952, the same age as 8 year old actress Tatum O'Neil was 20 years later in 1972 when she performed her famous Academy Award winning role as "Addie Prey" in Paper Moon (1972) directed and written by Peter Bagdonovich.

Tex Allen is 77 (2021) and lives in Columbia (Lancaster County) PA USA 17512. He is a retired U. S. Army Combat Medic soldier (Vietnam War). Decorated for heroic service, wartime valor. He worked as a performing artist/ entertainer for 61 years starting in 1953 and ending in 2014 when he retired at age 70.

His career as an stage and movie entertainer began in 1953 when he was 9 years old and he appeared as a stage choral music singer in Baltimore, Maryland USA at Northwood Elementary School on Loch Raven Blvd. between Winford Road and Hartsdale Road.

Tex (David) Allen studied classic Catholic theatre in 1959 with Father Ross LaPorta (who was also a playwright and one-act play director) emphasizing stagecraft, acting, and Catholic theatre subject matter during visits from Baltimore, Maryland USA (where Tex David Allen grew up) to the Harkness Theatre located at Catholic University Of America, Washington DC USA.

He was schooled in Baltimore MD Public Schools, University Of Virginia (1961-62), Antioch College Ohio (1962-66), the State University Of New York/ Buffalo (1987-88), and the University of Maryland (1988-89). Awarded B. A.

He first appeared as a lead movie actor (unpaid) in a student made movie at Antioch College Ohio titled THE EASTER PARADE (1963) when he was 19 years old.

Tex (David) Allen worked during his twenties and thirties (1964 - 84) as a professional public relations manager and consultant for many large private for-profit corporate organizations, and also for large non-profit corporations. His work included producing, directing, and script writing for documentary informational films supporting the mission of organizations which employed him. In 1974, Tex (David) Allen was hired as domestic public relations manager for Baltimore, Maryland USA's Commercial Credit Company (later re-named "PrimeAmerica") for the purpose of supervising public relations projects for the 18 domestic subsidiary companies owned by Commercial Credit Company (then owned by Control Data [Super-Computer] Corporation of Minnesota). Tex (David) Allen produced an expensive 16 mm industrial informational film for Commercial Credit Company titled "The Road Ahead" (1974) which explained possible future money lending techniques to support businesses and individuals (money lending was the main business of Commercial Credit Company at that time). The film was shown all over the USA at special Commercial Credit Company sponsored meetings usually held at large hotel ballrooms. Commercial Credit Company major customers were invited and the customers were invited to bring VIP's important to customer business. It was an important and early use of professionally made sound movies to support financial and money-lending organizations.

Tex (birth name: David) Allen, B.A. Antioch College Ohio (1966) studied "Mass Media: Films And Television" with "Twilight Zone" T.V. dramatic series creator Rod Serling, B.A. Antioch College Ohio (1950) in Fall of 1962 when Allen was 18 years old and Serling was 37 years old. Rod Serling returned to his alma mater, Antioch College Ohio, to teach writing and mass media in 1962. He gave Tex (David) Allen a "B" grade for the "Mass Media" course, and later helped Tex (David) Allen in Hollywood, California USA in 1970 when Tex Allen first arrived in Hollywood to begin work as a paid movie actor for major Hollywood studio theatrical and T.V. drama productions.

Tex Allen began work in the movie industry in 1968, and was hired as a regional movie publicist in San Francisco, California USA for Warner Brothers, represented in San Francisco, CA by Jack Wodell Associates Movie Publicity Office. Tex Allen (birth name: David Allen) was hired to promote the world premiere of the movie titled "Bullitt" (1968 Warner Bros.) starring Steve McQueen in 1968 before Tex Allen decided to leave field movie publicity work and begin movie actor work in Hollywood, California in 1970.

Tex (David) Allen produced a low budget, drive-in movie exploitation/horror movie in 1969 titled "Diamond Ring Of Satan," and held a presentation for potential investors at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Movie Studio in San Francisco, California USA to explain the movie project to potential money investors.

His earlier career as a paid movie actor began in Hollywood, California in 1970 when he was 26 years old.

Tex (David) Allen was hired October 1972 for health insurance media management work as Public Relations Manager for Maryland (USA) Blue Cross And Blue Shield non-profit health insurance organization then located in Towson, Maryland, a Baltimore County, Maryland suburb of Baltimore City, Maryland. He supervised several editors of in-house publications directed at employees and consumers of Maryland Blue Cross And Blue Shield health insurance products. In addition, he wrote, produced, directed, photographed, and narrated an award winning in-house documentary color sound movie titled IT'S ABSTRACTED (1972) about the computerized storage of Maryland Blue Cross And Blue Shield health insurance files and records which, throughout its then long history up to 1972, had always existed only in paper format and had never been stored or retrieved electronically. The documentary movie was inexpensively produced on magnetic sound striped Super 8 movie film which had only recently (in 1972) become widely available, and which enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the middle 1970's before it was replaced widely by use of video tape. The documentary was one of the first USA produced in-house industrial movie used to explain the then new (1972) use of computers in the insurance industry.

Tex (David) Allen worked as Maitre De' (Host) at the Blues Alley jazz nightclub and restaurant in Washington, DC in 1974 and 1975. The Georgetown (Washington. D.C.) nightclub was a famous performing venue for well known jazz music artists including Helen Humes, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Joe Venuti, and many other notable artists. Tex Allen learned a lot about traveling performing artists at the Blues Alley nightclub and restaurant.

Tex (David) Allen is the father of one child, a son named Timothy Nicholas Allen, born during Tex Allen's 2nd marriage (1976 - 1978) to Kathleen Anne Welsch (1951 St. Paul Minnesota USA - ). The boy's mother left Tex Allen and her marriage to him three months after her wedding in 1976 while she was pregnant with her son, and never returned to the marriage. She raised the son alone and permitted no contact or visitation from his birth father, Tex (David) Allen. She instructed her son to refuse and ignore all contact efforts from his birth father (Tex David Allen), and the heartless and arrogant son remained obedient to his mother by breaking the Fourth Commandment Honor Thy Father for many decades, never replied to many contact and/or visitation proposal efforts Tex (David) Allen attempted up to Father's Day, June 2016, when Timothy Nicholas Allen was 39 years old and Tex (David) Allen was 72. The only time father and son were together was a brief meeting requested and arranged by the son's paternal grandparents (Foy Allen 1911 - 2003 and Dorothy Hopppman Allen 1910 - 2005) in 1977, which meeting occurred on Mother's Day, May 1977, and lasted about 20 minutes. No other visitations were permitted by Kathleen Anne Welsch Allen (later Mrs. Craig Locke) after that."Tex" Allen's son, Timothy Nicholas Allen (born 1977 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada - ) speaks four European languages fluently, including English, and is a graduate of both the International (High) School of Luxembourg (also the alma mater of His Royal Highness Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Nassau, born in 1992) and the State University of New York at Buffalo NY. Timothy Nicholas Allen is the current (2015) owner of Western New York Sky Diving in Erie County New York USA, located near Buffalo, NY USA. He is (2016) a registered, licensed pilot and also a registered licensed parachute rigger (three categories: "back," "chest," and "seat.") in Alden NY USA. He is also rated as a "DZO" and achieved other skydiving related credentials. He teaches skydiving, made his first skydive in Mexico during his college years in the 1990's, has made more than 2000 "skydive jumps" since then, and also works as a videotape cameraman during skydive jumps made by skydive student and other customers of Western New York State Sky Diving (WWW.WNYSkyDiving.Com). His wife is Kristen Aducci Allen, a Buffalo, NY USA personal injury specialist lawyer presently working (2015) for Lewis And Lewis Law Firm in Buffalo, NY USA. Kristen Allen is also a skydiver who became nationally famous (reported by Fox News) in June 2009 due to a failed night time skydive effort (she missed and "overshot" her landing target) in Orleans County New York USA (near Rochester NY USA) which she survived with only a minor injury (a broken nose). The skydiving couple currently (2015) live in Erie County NY USA, and are parents of David ("Tex") Allen's only grandson.

Tex (Birth Name: "David Roger") Allen became a member of the Roman Catholic Church after he was baptized in February 1944 (3 weeks after his birth) at Our Lady Queen Of Martyrs Roman Catholic Parish Church (New York City, NY USA Archdiocese) located on Queens Boulevard, Queens (borough or sub-section), New York City, New York USA. He received the sacrament of Confirmation into the Roman Catholic Church in 1957 at St. Matthews Roman Catholic Church located on Loch Raven Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland USA. His "confirmation name" was "James." Baltimore, Maryland USA Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archbishop Francis Keough performed the Confirmation ceremony. Tex (David) Allen was married to Kathleen Anne Welsch of Tonawanda, New York in 1976 in a Roman Catholic marriage ceremony performed by Father George Clody of the Buffalo, New York USA Roman Catholic Archdiocese at St. Christopher's Shrine R.C. Parish Church located on Niagara Boulevard in North Tonawanda, New York USA. That marriage was declared "annulled" by the Marriage Tribunal of the Buffalo, New York Roman Archdiocese in February of 1977, and both Tex (David) Allen and Kathleen Welsch were declared by the Marriage Tribunal "free to marry" (again) in the Roman Catholic Church. Tex (birth name: David) never again engaged in a Roman Catholic marriage ceremony, but Kathleen Anne Welsch married in 1980 in a Roman Catholic ceremony to Mr. Craig Locke of Erie County, New York, who was an employee of Kathleen Welsch's father's business (Dynabrade, Inc. of Clarence, New York, a portable power tool manufacturing company founded in 1965 by Walter Welsch, Kathleen Welsch's father), and who (Craig Locke) later became President of his father in law's company, fathered 3 children with Kathleen Welsch, and supervised the upbringing of Timothy Nicholas Allen, child of Tex (David) Allen and Kathleen Welsch, born March 27, 1977, who was conceived in 1976 before the marriage was declared "annulled" in 1977. Mr. Craig Locke and Mrs. Kathleen Welsch Locke continued to live together in Erie County, New York USA (near Buffalo, NY USA) until 2015 and beyond. Tex (David) Allen did not continue active membership in the Roman Catholic Church following his Roman Catholic Church marriage annulment declaration in 1977. He never left the Roman Catholic Church nor was he ever removed from it by the Roman Catholic authorities, and thus remains (2016) a nominal member, though not an active one.

Tex (David) Allen was hired in 1978 by Northern Telecom Of Canada (name later changed to NorTel) to become Financial Public Relations Manager in charge of the telephone and computer manufacturing company's Annual Report Of Operations, and other Quarterly Financial Report Publications. He wrote an award winning theme article for the 1978 Northern Telecom Annual Report which explained the difference between use of digital electronic switching (then new in worldwide telephony) and old time mechanical analog telephone signal switching. Up to the 1970's, Northern Telecom was Canada's equivalent telephone business organization to Western Electric Corp. in the USA. Up to the 1970's, Bell Telephone was the largest single national phone company in the USA, and Bell Canada was the largest single phone company in Canada. Each organization had a wholly owned manufacturing organization which provided physical phone company products: Western Electric in the USA and Northern Telecom in Canada. The arrival of digital switching in the 1970's required Northern Telecom to begin manufacture of digital switching equipment, and that had to be explained in clear language to the public which was at that time (1970's) unfamiliar with how digital electronic equipment worked and why it was needed to meet the increased demand at that time for worldwide telephone service. Tex (David) Allen's important Northern Telecom Annual Report theme article in 1978 about the then coming arrival of digital electronic communications which would in time completely replace old time analog mechanical telephone switching machinery was widely reprinted all over the world and used to explain the then new electronic changes in telephone equipment and use.

Tex Allen wrote a Pentecostal joke religious song in Atlanta, Georgia during 1981 titled Your Body Is A Temple Of The Holy Spirit And He Doesn't Want To Live In A Shack which was widely performed in the early 1980s in the SE USA states born again Christian Pentecostal community. Tex Allen was often asked to perform his song (which he accompanied on his acoustical guitar) during the 1980's. The song was never recorded professionally, although amateur tape recordings of the song were made and distributed on a limited basis.

Tex (birthname: "David") Allen worked twice as a stand-up comedian entertaining audiences attending performances of exotic (aka: "striptease") dancers. In 1984, he worked at the "Palace Theatre" in Pittsburgh, PA USA, formerly a "motion picture palace" during the "Golden Age Of Hollywood" in the 1920's and 1930's which became a venue in the middle 1980's featuring high quality "exotic" (female) dancers in a setting often attended by high level executives from major Pittsburgh, PA USA business organizations (Aluminum Company Of America, Melon Bank, U.S. Steel, etc.) Tex (birthname: "David") Allen later worked as a stand-up comedian/dancer entertainer at "Mint's Nightclub" located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (near Niagara Falls, New York USA) in 1986 and 1987, and was the featured headline act there for two months in late 1986 until he was promoted to work as manager at "Mint's Nightclub" reporting to then club owner Humberto Varilla until he quit work at "Mint's" completely in Spring of 1987.

Education: Master's Degree 1989 in Library Science (Honors) University of Maryland (Elected to Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society, often called the "Phi Beta Kappa of Library Science")., Undergraduate Schools: University of Virginia (Dean's List Of Distinguished Students), Antioch College Ohio (Bachelor's Degree in Education).

Tex (David) Allen wrote and directed a 1996 half hour natural history documentary video film about the Gunpowder Falls River which originates in northwestern Baltimore County Maryland USA and flows southeast through Harford County Maryland USA to the town of Joppa, Maryland where the Gunpowder Falls River flows into and joins the northern section of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.The Gunpowder Falls River documentary traces the origins of the river as a tiny stream originating in Maryland farm fields, and increasing in size and volume as it flows east until it becomes navigable and suitable for boat travel.

He is a retired SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Hollywood studio movie actor who acted in 24 major Hollywood studio movies between 2004 and 2014.

Allen has been married to Kristin Marie Aducci Allen, a personal injury specialist lawyer in Erie County NY USA, since 2009. The couple are parents of two children (see above).

Allen's 2 children, Owen Allen (2011 - ) and Lucy Allen (2016 - ). Timothy N.

service jobs, and movie industry actor and sales/promotion jobs until he retired in 2014 at age 70.

Tex Allen (birth name: David Roger Allen) presently (2016) resides in the town of Columbia (Lancaster County), Pennsylvania USA.

David Allen served in the U.S. Army after being drafted in 1966 during the Vietnam war Era, and was trained at. Fort Sam Houston, Texas as a combat medic (U.S. Army Occupational Specialty # 91A10). He was a Conscientious Objector in uniform, was promoted early due to outstanding performance during U.S. Army Basic Training, and received an Honorable Discharge when he completed his U.S. Army service.1,354 men who served as combat medics during the Vietnam War era died, including many Conscientious Objectors in uniform who served. 15 combat medics were awarded the Congressional Medal Of Honor. 8 of these awards were posthumous.David (Tex) Allen's Military Service (served using the family name "David Cudd," changed legally from his birth surname, "Allen" the day he went into the US Army in 1966, and changed BACK to "Allen" legally in 1967.He was drafted as "David Allen," presented his "change of name" legal documents from the State Of Maryland on the day he was inducted into the US Army in June 1966, entered the US Army as "Private E-1 David Cudd," and was discharged Honorably (decorated with a Nat. Defense Medal) with a "DD-214" DOD Military Discharge document under the name "Private E-2 David Cudd." His name change back to "Allen" in 1967 took place in New York State where he lived after his US Army 1966 discharge. Details of his Military Service: Vietnam War Era Veteran (1960's) ..U.S. Army Combat Medic, National Defense Service Medal, Honorable Discharge. He was drafted into military service in June 1966 at age 22. He was a conscientious objector and become a conscientious objector (in uniform) combat medic trained in a special conscientious objector training unit located at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. He completed basic training there in the top ten per cent of his class, and was promoted early from Private E-1 to Private E-2 before entering advanced training for combat medic specialty work (Military Occupational Specialty # 91 A 10). On October 21, 2017, David (Tex) Allen was awarded a 50th Anniversary Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pin at an official public ceremony in Lancaster, PA USA held at Hempfield High School Performing Arts Center. U.S. Air Force 4 Star General William T. (Tom) Hobbins personally pinned the award pin onto Tex Allen's lapel during the ceremony. The event was authorized by Public Law 110-181 SEC 598: the National Defense Authorization Act which authorized the Secretary Of Defense to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War and to award Vietnam Veteran Lapel Pins to those who served in the USA Military during the Vietnam War Era (1955 - 1975).

He spends his time in retirement (2020) pursuing a variety of interests including listening to recorded nostalgia music daily (Classical and popular music), reading and listening to spoken word poetry, classic fiction and non-fiction books, watching (screening) classic fiction and documentary movies from his large video collection, hiking outdoors, riding his bicycle, and visiting/ communicating with / socializing with his many recent and long time friends. He enjoys tasty food, gets 12 hours of rest/ sleep/ naps during every 24 hour day. He believes it important to be well rested, that daytime naps and solid sleep at night (8 hours minimum nightly) are the keys to good health and longevity. His education (20 years full time), ambitions, and experiences made him cultured, well informed, humane, and socially aware/ selective.

These were and are (2020) his primary life values. He lives at Catholic Housing For The Elderly (St. Peter Apts.