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Hometown Neighbors Camille Anding 10 • June 2017
“When you say, ‘I’m from Brandon, people know where it is!’” Georgia Grubbs said with noticeable pride and total agreement by her husband, Truitt. Jackson had been their home where they had planned to raise their three children, but school uncertainties forced them to move. After being told the fifth time that their children would have to change schools one more time because of consolidations, they pulled up roots and planted their lives in Rankin County. It was a good plant for the Grubbs as well as the citizens of the county. As for the Brandon school system, Georgia says, “It couldn’t have been better.” Truitt credits Dr. Mike Vinson, their superintendent of education, for turning the schools around. Truitt and Georgia have always been faithful public school supporters. Truitt was the “baby” of six children, and when all of his siblings boarded the school bus, he cried to go to school with them. The next year was too long for him to wait. When his crying wouldn’t stop, Truitt’s mother visited the principal and convinced him that Truitt needed to be in school. He started “primer,” as it was called, six months early. When thinking back over the positive growth of their beloved county, Truitt, an active Republican, believes that his party has played a major role in Rankin County progress. “I believe this county (Rankin) carried the heaviest Republican vote in the state and has influenced state-wide elections,” he says with a politician’s pride. He added that Rankin County is the home of Governor Phil Bryant (before the governor’s mansion), Tate Reeves, Dick Hall, and Gregg Harper. Representative Harper is a Republican that recognizes the influence that the Grubbs wield. He refers to Truitt as his adopted daddy and has spoken publicly about believing that Georgia and Truitt have had more influence on his election than any others. The Grubbs are not your “front-porch-rocking” neighbors. Truitt began his career as a 4-H county agent in Lawrence County and moved on to Lincoln County for eleven more years. After a break to earn his master’s degree from Mississippi State, he returned to work as the southwestern district director of the cooperative extension service for twenty years. He recalls traveling to Brandon to buy calves for his 4-H clubs from J.W. Underwood. His farm was located on acreage that was to become Crossgates Subdivision. Truitt credits Underwood for quality development of Brandon in those early stages of city planning. After the Grubbs’ sons had begun and operated Green Tree Landscape and Maintenance for ten years, Truitt retired after his thirty-two years with the extension service and joined his sons for the next ten years. Georgia added amid her contagious laugh, “The boys told him if he behaved, they’d give him a riding lawn mower!” She joined the family business as the financial operator after retiring from six years as director of Kinder-Gates, a children’s day care. Hometown Rankin • 11
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