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Ralph Duncan had been managing the South Texas Lumber Company at East Walnut Street and South Commercial Avenue, since before 1946. Roy T. Trigg succeeded Duncan on January 1, 1947 as manager of the local yard. Duncan resigned to devote full time to other interests, including the Duncan and Currie Plumbing Supply, his ranching interest and home contracting. In
October 1946, Duncan (below left) and C.
D. Currie announced the opening
of a new plumbing supply and fixture store located at
106 Roselawn Avenue
called the Currie Plumbing Supply, but the name was
later changed to Duncan and
Currie. Currie was initially the manager
of the new firm. A new brick building
(below
right, Frank Dunlap) housed
the new business, which presented a most
attractive front to the street, with ample space for
display. They featured a complete service and
maintenance
department. Pat Fallan, a well know and
experienced plumber in Coleman was in the service
department. In October 1947, Ralph Duncan and
his brother
W. R. Duncan, cashier of the Winters State Bank, had
purchased the interest of
his partner, C. D. Currie, in the Duncan-Currie
partnership engaging in the
plumbing, heating, and cooling and insulation
business. The name of the business was changed
to
Duncan’s. In additional to the other
lines of business, floor covering of all kinds were
sold and a wood working
shop was maintained, with Walter Woods in charge.
Ralph Duncan had been a resident of Coleman
since February 1923. He was with H. H.
Hardin Lumber Company until 1935 and was local manager
of the South Texas
Lumber Company until entering his present business.
He originally entered the lumber business at
Winters for J. M. Musser of Abilene. In
March 1948, Rob
Atkinson became associated with Duncan’s as a
plumber. By 1949, the business was called Duncan
Building Service and Supplies.
In 1950, the Duncan Building Service and Supplies at 106 Roselawn Drive in Coleman, but had become the Morgan and Cullins Wholesale Meat Company by 1954 (below right, Hugh Capps). It soon became the Morgan Meat Company, a wholesale and retail meat firm owned and operated by C. O. and Pauline Morgan. The Morgans remodeled their building and added a grocery line (below right, Hugh Capps) in February 1962. They also continued with their meat processing business. Olin B. “Smitty” Smith, brother-in-law of C. O. Morgan, was associated with the business as manager of the grocery department. He had been in the grocery business in Coleman for a number of years before this time.
A few years later, Morgan’s was sold to Jeff Lefevre and became Jeff’s Market, specialized in wholesale and retail of all meat cuts. In early 1971, Jeff’s did an extensive remodeling of their processing facilities to meet the new and rigid state and federal regulations. The processing room (below left, Milton Autry) was 25 by 28 feet. Added to the plant were two new cold storage vaults measuring 21 by 21 feet and 12 x 12 feet. The expansion and remodeling more than doubled the firm’s meat handling capacity. They processed and wrapped for the freezer and also handled deer processing. Jeff Lefevre died in 1983, but his son, Cliff Lefevre, continued the business, at the same location, closing about 2002.
The old brick building was torn
down between 2020 and 2023.
A new metal building was built
after 2023 and is now occupied by Grumpy's Liquor
Store, owned by Marky and Sonya Burch.
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