| − | Mamoulides was one of four children of [[Greece|Greek]] immigrants Mitchell D. and Pansy G. Mamoulides (1908-2001).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/houstonchronicle/name/pansy-mamoulides-obituary?id=28440228|title=Pansy Mamoulides obituary|publisher=''Houston Chronicle''|date=December 5, 2001|accessdate=August 7, 2023}}</ref> Born in Crowley in Acadia Parish near [[Lafayette]], he grew up working in the family's cafe business. After the death of his father in 1945, when Mamoulides was twelve years of age, he took odd jobs to support his family. He still found time to play sports at Crowley High School. He graduated from the institution now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and then entered the [[United States Air Force]] in which he was a navigator named to a team that protected the nation's advanced and often secret technology housed at a radar base in California under the Air Defense Command. Upon discharge from active duty, Mamoulides enrolled in law school at [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans. For a time he also worked as an air traffic controller and a construction worker.<ref name=obit/> | + | Mamoulides was one of four children of [[Greece|Greek]] immigrants Mitchell D. and Pansy G. Mamoulides (1908-2001), she an active member of the [[Greek Orthodox Church]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/houstonchronicle/name/pansy-mamoulides-obituary?id=28440228|title=Pansy Mamoulides obituary|publisher=''Houston Chronicle''|date=December 5, 2001|accessdate=August 7, 2023}}</ref> Born in Crowley in Acadia Parish near [[Lafayette]], he grew up working in the family's cafe business. After the death of his father in 1945, when Mamoulides was twelve years of age, he took odd jobs to support his family. He still found time to play sports at Crowley High School. He graduated from the institution now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and then entered the [[United States Air Force]] in which he was a navigator named to a team that protected the nation's advanced and often secret technology housed at a radar base in California under the Air Defense Command. Upon discharge from active duty, Mamoulides enrolled in law school at [[Tulane University]] in New Orleans. For a time he also worked as an air traffic controller and a construction worker.<ref name=obit/> |