Gene Truax

Obituary For Gene Truax

Gene Truax, age 82 of Bowie, TX passed on December 29th, 2020 after a lengthy illness. Graveside services will take place at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 31st, at the Salona Cemetery in Bowie. Gene was born September 26, 1938 in Electra, TX to Emery Lee Truax and Juanita Corine Sanders Truax. Gene attended school in Electra, TX and moved to Bowie in his junior high years. He became a machinist and welder, working for Bowie Industries, Gibbins, Inc. A-1 Well Service and he was self-employed. Gene married Iona Andreasen on May 11th, 1957. Gene was well known to hunt and fish with his family and friends, and was often seen at the Longhorn Café with his best friend, Jamie Reed, or running parts with Uncle Buster Sanders. He could also never pass up a Braum’s without getting a cherry pecan ice cream, or a Cracker Barrell for a home cooked meal. Occasionally, he was pulled over outrunning Fords, or caught teaching one of the grandchildren to drive when they were under the age of 10. His specialty was to cook breakfast on Saturday mornings for his grand kids. Gene was affectionately known by “Gran Gran, Geno or Sticky”. Those who proceeded Gene in death are his parents, wife Iona, siblings Jackie Truax, Shirley Noe Teel, and Betty Epperson, grandson Brett Truax, several brother and sister-in-laws, uncle Buster Sanders, and close friends. Gene is survived by his three sons and their wives: Curtis and Liz of Sunset, TX, Roger and Denise of Bowie, TX and James and Wanda of Bowie, TX and one daughter, Debra Shackelford of Montague. Twelve grandchildren: Leslie Rainey, Jennifer Heugatter, Scott Deweber, Jodi Deweber, Ashlie Truax, Kasey Truax, Rachel Truax, Laramie Truax, Riley Truax, Ethan Truax, Jessica Plemons, and John Jacobs, their spouses and 12 great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and the Truax, Sanders and Andreasen families. Arrangements entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home of Bowie, TX.