Sadly, Dobson and franchisee and friend Johnny Sneed were killed in a private plane crash on April 11, 1967 in La Porte. The couple had known each other for years in Batesville, Arkansas Grace rented a house from and lived next door to Harmon's brother, Coy.

Once he launched his hamburger business in 1950, he married the former Grace Larsen in March 1955. One possible investment on his radar: a hamburger stand. He had also just come off a stint working in the diamond industry in South America. He was looking to invest in a variety of businesses having already dabbled in oil well and rock quarry investments and buying and selling used cars. Harmon Dobson was a 36-year-old World War II veteran from Cushman, Arkansas, when he arrived in Texas in 1949. But do you know these facts about the Texas icon which started in Corpus Christi in 1950? Harmon Dobson and family You may know the menu items by heart, and long for honey butter chicken biscuits when in a sad, Whataburger-free part of the country.

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