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Article: Sonic Founder, Troy N. Smith, Sr., Dies at 87.(Obituary)
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- Pediatrics Week
- Article date:
- November 14, 2009
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Troy N. Smith, Sr., the founder of the Top Hat which later became Sonic, America's Drive-In, died Monday, Oct. 26. He was 87.
His daughter, Leslie Baugh, confirmed his death, saying her father had been in declining health recently.
Born in 1922, Smith grew up in the oil patch in east central Oklahoma, attending Mountain View School and Seminole High School. In 1940, he married his sweetheart, Dollie Twiggs, before going into the Army Air Corps in 1943.
After World War II ended, Smith returned to Oklahoma, to Dollie and his two small children, and began driving a milk truck, then a bread truck route as he pursued a desire to own his own business. ...