Elaine Boyd Truitt (’42), Denton :: As a freshman at North Texas, she met and married Price Truitt (’41, ’42 M.S.), who would start his long career as a UNT chemistry professor in 1945. They had been married for 69 years when he died in 2008. They operated a chicken farm west of Denton for eight years and in the 1960s owned and operated a store near Yellowstone Park during the summers. She helped to found the Denton Quilt Guild and was a Pink Lady at Flow Hospital for many years. Memorials may be made to the Price and Elaine B. Truitt Endowment Fund at UNT, which they established for math or science majors pursuing teaching degrees.
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Elaine Boyd Truitt (’42), Denton :: As a freshman at North Texas, she met and married Price Truitt (’41, ’42 M.S.), who would start his long career as a UNT chemistry professor in 1945. They had been married for 69 years when he died in 2008. They operated a chicken farm west of Denton for eight years and in the 1960s owned and operated a store near Yellowstone Park during the summers. She helped to found the Denton Quilt Guild and was a Pink Lady at Flow Hospital for many years. Memorials may be made to the Price and Elaine B. Truitt Endowment Fund at UNT, which they established for math or science majors pursuing teaching degrees.
