Dean’s Hardware in Joaquin, Texas on Friday, December 22, 2023 –
Dean’s Hardware in Joaquin, Texas will be closing on December 29th of this year. The store has been operating throughout three generations. The business originally opened in 1919 as L.B.(Louie) Dean’s Garage, on the south side of the town’s square, on Belle Street which is now U.S. Highway 84.
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By 1930 the business had grown and evolved into a Chevrolet dealership and sold Gulf Oil products. Louie and Sue Dean ran the store’s operations and the business changed from car sales in the 1940s to hardware and farm supplies sales until their respective deaths in 1952. Their son Webb Dean returned to Joaquin in 1952 after graduating from Texas A&M University and two years of service in the U.S. Army. He took over operations at the hardware business until his death in 2001. Dean’s Hardware has always been family owned and currently is ran by Louie’s grandson Rodney, and wife Gearline Dean, and has sold hardware, appliances, and farm supplies and has been a valued part of the community.
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Joaquin City Council members Jessie Griffith, Cathy Atkinson and Steve Cockrell were on hand to present a plaque to the Dean’s as recognition of service to the community for 104 years.
