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trip, Mr. O’Bannon usually has a truck fiill of furniture to deliver, and “he hates to come home with the truck half empty,” Mr. Estes said. “He says, ‘You can’t do any good running a truck up and down the road half empty.’ ”
Mr. Estes adds, “He knows personally every manufacturer and distributor of the stuff he can market. He’s good-natured, always in a very good humor, and that’s the secret of his business success.”
Mr. O’Bannon was bom on Independence Day, 1923, an only child. He attended grade school in Woodville, survived the Woodville tornado of May, 1929, and went to high school in the building now occupied by the Emporium.
After finishing at Sperryville High in 1941, he spent two years at Virginia Polytechnic Institute before getting a farming deferment from the draft. Meanwhile his future wife, Louise Rudasill, was attending Madison College and Richmond Polytechnic, getting a nursing degree. She graduated and worked for two months before they were married.
The couple have four children: John Maurice III, a Richmond neurologist; Robert Hill, who is with C&P Telephone; Rappahannock High librarian Elizabeth Catherine O’Bannon Scott and Martha Louise O’Bannon, who works at the Emporium.
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