Editing Alan Page (section)

==Early life==
Page was born and raised in [[Canton, Ohio]].<ref name="interview">[https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05/16/gary-eichten-and-alan-page Former Minn. Supreme Court Justice Alan Page on life, education, football and the law], [[Minnesota Public Radio]].  May 16, 2017.</ref> His parents stressed the importance of education and of doing his best regardless of what others did.<ref name="interview"/> His mother died when he was 13.<ref name="interview"/> Page said he wanted to become a lawyer when he was a child.<ref name="interview"/>

Page graduated from [[Central Catholic High School (Perry Township, Ohio)|Canton Central Catholic High School]] in 1963, where he starred in several sports and excelled in [[High school football|football]]. He worked on a construction team that erected the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]], laying the groundwork for the building in which he would one day be enshrined.