Wilbur Bradley, 91, was a Wall of Honor honoree in 2001 and was involved in several civic groups
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KIRK PEARCE • KIRK@LACLEDERECORD.COM
Longtime Lebanon businessman and civic leader Wilbur Hayes Bradley died Monday. He was 90.
He was born Jan. 20, 1930, in Pineville, Mo. to Brownie E. and Flossie F. Bradley.
Bradley graduated from Pineville High School and attended college at Southwest Missouri State University (now MSU) and the University of Arkansas. He joined the Skelly Oil Company Marketing Department (now Texaco) in 1954 and retired in 1969 as District Sales Manager in Springfield.
In 1969 with partner W.E. Day, he purchased the Oasis Truck Stop renamed the B & D Truck Stop, the D.S. Caldwell Oil Company in Laclede County and later formed a retail propane operation. All assets of the B & D were sold between 1992-1994.
For more on this story see Wednesday's LCR.
