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{{Infobox person
| name=Graham Allen Penniman, Jr.<br>
(Texas-Louisiana businessman and civic figure)
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=November 1, 1927
| birth_place=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
| death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=April 1, 2020 (aged 92)
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]
| spouse=(1) Mary Virginia Crain Penniman
(2) Joan Calder Penniman<br>
'''Five children'''}}
'''Graham Allen Penniman, Jr.'' (November 1, 1927 - April 1, 2020), was a [[business]]man and civic figure originally from [[Dallas]], [[Texas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/graham-penniman/e217575711732|title=Graham Penniman (Allen), 92|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref> whose Pak-a-Sak convenience stores were the first to offer all-day, all-week access for shoppers.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=g-allen-penniman-jr&pid=195861322|title=
G. Penniman obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=April 2, 2020|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
A son of Graham Penniman, Sr., and the former Frances Staten, he graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas and in 1948 completed his studies at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, [[Virginia]]. He later attended [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], at which he graduated in the first class of the Mid-South Executive Development Program. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. He spent the second half of his life in Baton Rouge.
==Business and civic to activities==
Penniman's Pak-a-Sak chain was sold in 1971 to Southland Corporation,. It had offered shoppers the first self-service gasoline, popular barbeque sandwiches, and the first Icee frozen drinks. He was a board member of the Council of Profit Sharing Industries and worked to provide profit-sharing for Pak-a-Sak employees. After the merger, Penniman was a liaison and regional manager for Southland Corporation throughout the southeastern United States. In 1982, he founded the Penniman Company to advise his business clients of the fine points of acquiring, managing, and selling companies. He was a mentor and counselor to many young business people.<ref name=obit/>
In civic matters, he was a president of the [[United Fund]] and sat on the boards of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and St. Luke's and St. James Episcopal churches, of which he was a vestryman and served on the school boards operated by his church. He was a board member of Community Coffee, the Capital Savings and Loan Association, City National Bank, Miller Penniman Equipment, and Vermillion, Inc. In 1961, he was named "Young Businessman of the Year." He worked to raise funds for the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, of which he was a founder and the last surviving member of the original school board.<ref name=obit/>
He was a member of the LSU Foundation and raised funds for the School of Arts and Music and the E.J. Ourso School of Business. He was a particular of LSU [[baseball]]. A hunter and fisherman, he purchased property in 1975 in Clinton in East Feliciana Parish outside Baton Rouge and developed what he called Penniman Oaks.<ref name=obit/>
I==Family and death==
n 1948, he married the former Mary Virginia Crain, by whom he had five children, Laurie McDuff (husband Al), Mary Crain Brumback (husband Bill), Margaret Boudreaux, Graham Penniman (wife Maureen), and Rebecca Penniman Eyre (husband Robert). After the death of his first wife, he wed in 1977 the former Joan Calder (born 1934), who survives him.<ref name=obit/>
Penniman died at the age of ninety-two in Baton Rouge of natural causes. Because of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic, his services were postponed to a later date. He is also survived by a sister, Margaret Penniman Fontaine of [[Shreveport]], Louisiana,<ref name=obit/> and he was preceded in death by a brother, Edgar Erwin Penniman (1933-2015), born in Dallas but a long-term businessman in Pensacola, [[Florida]], who was also active in Pak-a-Sak and on other businesses after the merger.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145788197/edgar-erwin-penniman|title=Edgar Erwin Penniman|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
| name=Graham Allen Penniman, Jr.<br>
(Texas-Louisiana businessman and civic figure)
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| birth_date=November 1, 1927
| birth_place=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
| death_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
| death_date=April 1, 2020 (aged 92)
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]
| spouse=(1) Mary Virginia Crain Penniman
(2) Joan Calder Penniman<br>
'''Five children'''}}
'''Graham Allen Penniman, Jr.'' (November 1, 1927 - April 1, 2020), was a [[business]]man and civic figure originally from [[Dallas]], [[Texas]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/graham-penniman/e217575711732|title=Graham Penniman (Allen), 92|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref> whose Pak-a-Sak convenience stores were the first to offer all-day, all-week access for shoppers.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://obits.theadvocate.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=g-allen-penniman-jr&pid=195861322|title=
G. Penniman obituary|publisher=''The Baton Rouge Advocate''|date=April 2, 2020|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
A son of Graham Penniman, Sr., and the former Frances Staten, he graduated from Highland Park High School in Dallas and in 1948 completed his studies at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, [[Virginia]]. He later attended [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]], at which he graduated in the first class of the Mid-South Executive Development Program. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. He spent the second half of his life in Baton Rouge.
==Business and civic to activities==
Penniman's Pak-a-Sak chain was sold in 1971 to Southland Corporation,. It had offered shoppers the first self-service gasoline, popular barbeque sandwiches, and the first Icee frozen drinks. He was a board member of the Council of Profit Sharing Industries and worked to provide profit-sharing for Pak-a-Sak employees. After the merger, Penniman was a liaison and regional manager for Southland Corporation throughout the southeastern United States. In 1982, he founded the Penniman Company to advise his business clients of the fine points of acquiring, managing, and selling companies. He was a mentor and counselor to many young business people.<ref name=obit/>
In civic matters, he was a president of the [[United Fund]] and sat on the boards of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and St. Luke's and St. James Episcopal churches, of which he was a vestryman and served on the school boards operated by his church. He was a board member of Community Coffee, the Capital Savings and Loan Association, City National Bank, Miller Penniman Equipment, and Vermillion, Inc. In 1961, he was named "Young Businessman of the Year." He worked to raise funds for the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, of which he was a founder and the last surviving member of the original school board.<ref name=obit/>
He was a member of the LSU Foundation and raised funds for the School of Arts and Music and the E.J. Ourso School of Business. He was a particular of LSU [[baseball]]. A hunter and fisherman, he purchased property in 1975 in Clinton in East Feliciana Parish outside Baton Rouge and developed what he called Penniman Oaks.<ref name=obit/>
I==Family and death==
n 1948, he married the former Mary Virginia Crain, by whom he had five children, Laurie McDuff (husband Al), Mary Crain Brumback (husband Bill), Margaret Boudreaux, Graham Penniman (wife Maureen), and Rebecca Penniman Eyre (husband Robert). After the death of his first wife, he wed in 1977 the former Joan Calder (born 1934), who survives him.<ref name=obit/>
Penniman died at the age of ninety-two in Baton Rouge of natural causes. Because of the [[coronavirus]] pandemic, his services were postponed to a later date. He is also survived by a sister, Margaret Penniman Fontaine of [[Shreveport]], Louisiana,<ref name=obit/> and he was preceded in death by a brother, Edgar Erwin Penniman (1933-2015), born in Dallas but a long-term businessman in Pensacola, [[Florida]], who was also active in Pak-a-Sak and on other businesses after the merger.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145788197/edgar-erwin-penniman|title=Edgar Erwin Penniman|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 5, 2020}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Penniman, Jr., G. Allen}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]