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Trinka Davis Veterans Village

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).

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

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