Family Histories of Coleman
County, Texas
FOY WAYNE KNOWLES
by Louise Pridemore
From
A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
edited
by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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| Foy Wayne was born in San Antonio during the depression, October 13,
1930 to Foy Charles and Velma Mae (Barker) Knowles (see Foy
Charles Knowles). He has lived in Coleman since he was 9 months
old and lived most of his boyhood days near the city park. Many happy
hours was spent in the wading pool at the park then. He went to West
Ward School and one of his principals was D. E. Loveless. At the
age of 16, he bought his first truck. It was a 1937 Red Ford from
Earl Morris without a dime down and no one signed his note. He paid
it out by hauling grain and later burlap bags. He went to the First
Presbyterian Church, later he joined the Bible Baptist Church, where Bro.
T. L. Slimp was pastor. There is where he met and married Louella,
daughter of Rev. T. L. and Cassie (Brown) Slimp in 1949. Foy Wayne
and Fred Knowles, his cousin, owned Knowles Feed and Seed from 1965 to
1969. He leases Bob O’Hair’s land northeast of Coleman where he raises
cattle and farms. He owns 3K Bar B Que. He and
his family are members of the Concho Baptist Church. He had three
children: a daughter, Cathey Lou Ann, died at birth, and two sons; Foy
Wayne Jr. and Roy Lane. Wayne Jr. married Cindy Smith and have two
sons - Troy Shane, born in January 1979, and Cody Zane, November 1981 (see
Robert Crow Bassett, Sr.).
(Images to be added)
Foy Wayne and Louella Knowles
Roy Lane Knowles
Foy Wayne, Jr. and Cindy with son ‘s Cody and Troy
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