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Submitted: 1/31/20 • Approved: 2/3/20 • Last Updated: 2/6/20 • R261901-G0-S3
US Navy
World War II
June 18, 1924 - December 14, 1998
Truman Bryan Quillin was born on June 18, 1924, in Seymour, Texas. He married Carolita Jones (1928–2007) on February 16, 1947, in Texas. They had three children during their marriage. He died on December 14, 1998, in his hometown at the age of 74, and was buried in Vernon, Texas.
Divorce
Carolita Jones and Truman Bryan Quillin were divorced on August 15, 1984, in Taylor, Texas, after 37 years of marriage. She was 56 years old.
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Truman Bryan Quillin, Sr., age 74 of Seymour, Texas, passed away on Monday, December 14, 1998. He lived a very full and meaningful life.
Truman served his country in the United States Navy in the Southwest Pacific during World War II.
After the war, he settled with his family in Vernon, Texas, where he joined the staff of the Vernon Daily Record as an advertising salesman in 1947. In 1952, he became the business manager, and he was eventually named publisher of the Vernon Daily Record in 1960. He served in this capacity fro 1960-1976.
In his most productive years, Truman was active in community affairs. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Wilbarger County Hospital District and the construction of Wilbarger General Hospital, serving the hospital board as chairman during the hospital's planning, construction and initial operational stages.
Along the other community and area leaders, he secured a location for the Vernon MH-MR Center. He also was active in the industrial development of the community helping to locate Stein, Hall and Company's guar processing plant in Vernon. For a period of time, he served as chair of the Vernon Industrial Foundation. He served on the Chamber of Commerce Committee that secured the reconstruction of the Wilbarger County Airport.
Truman was a third degree Mason and long time member of the First Baptist Church of Vernon. He was active in the Optimist Club.
He and his son established a Golden Fried Chicken, later to become Chicken Express, in Vernon and Seymour.
He married Floy Beth (Binker) Cooper on November 24, 1991, in Seymour, Texas.
He is survived by his wife, Floy Beth (Binker) of Seymour; a son, Truman Bryan Quillin, Jr. and wife, Sherian, of Vernon; two daughters, Paula Ford and husband, Bill, of Abilene, and Nancy Long and husband, Derek, of Austin; a sister, Francelle Emmons of Crowley, Texas; and four grandchildren, Shawn, Kelly and Hudson Quillin, and Kristen Ford.
Funeral services will be held at Sullivan Funeral Home in Vernon, Texas, with Reverend Brad Enloe, pastor of First United Methodist Church in Seymour, officiating. Interment will follow at Wilbarger Memorial Park.
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