text: Norman Louis Allinger married Janet Waldron on 14 August 1952 in Los Angeles.  They published a paper on conformational analysis in 1960  and several thereafter. They had four children the first of whom, Gregory Edward, died at birth on 7 January 1962 in Detroit. The others were Ilene Suzanne, James Augustus and Alan Louis, all of whom survived their father.
  Janet Waldron Allinger, who was born in Georgia, died in Athens in 1991, aged 62.
  Lou married Irene Saez in 1992, whose three children all survived their stepfather.
  Norman Louis Allinger died in Athens on 8 July 2020. Lou and Janet are buried at Athens Memory Gardens in Georgia.