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10 - WELCOME HOME 2016-2017
By: Geoff Parker
On the Atlanta VA Medical Center’s web
site, there’s a picture of the Trinka Davis
Veterans Village in Carrollton. I was sur-
prised to find nothing else except links to
other centers, and so forth. This contem-
porary facility for our veterans is, simply,
an extraordinary environment with an
amazing story attached to it.
Around the time that World War Two
was finally ending, Davis’s father, Poncet
Davis, obtained Textile Sales Company in
Bowden, Georgia. Trinka Davis attained
the facility when Mr. Davis died in 1975.
At various times, Trinka Davis’s advisors
continually attempted to persuade her to
dispose of or sell the Textile assets but she
was not inclined to follow those sugges-
tions. This was most unusual considering
since 1998, Davis resided in the Waldorf-
Astoria Towers in Manhattan.
Trinka Davis was a world traveler, well-
educated and a part of the high society
in New York. But she came to enjoy her
monthly meetings in Bowden and even-
tually made friends with many Carroll
County people. She even selected a lo-
cal citizen, Kirk Dortch, to become the
President of Textile Sales. In 1978, the
plant was destroyed in a fire and, again,
her guides told her to abandon the cause.
Davis was originally from the South and
her loyalty to the families and employees
outweighed any economic calamity. The
new plant became Trintex complete with
the annual Christmas shindig. Davis and
Dortch created another subsidiary, Inter-
tex World Resources, which became an
international synthetic rubber brokerage
business (one of the biggest commerce
subsidiaries of its kind).
Trinka Davis
Veterans Village