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The third sister, Mary Carroll-Pierce, and her son Dan Mitchell Pierce


Pierce Grocery Store
811 South Armstrong Avenue, January 1956
"My dad (Dan Mitchell Pierce) outside the Pierce Grocery.  The store was owned by my grandfather Dansby Pierce and my grandmother Mary Carroll-Pierce."




Dan Mitchell Pierce on the front steps of the Carroll family home, 515 North Burnett Avenue, Denison, Texas



Deuce Cut-Rate Liquors
Southwest corner of Armstrong Avenue and Day Street, ca 1960.
Owned by Mary Carroll-Pierce and Dansby Pierce.
The building was Betty's Beauty Salon around 1970–1980.
Later it became the Ark Christian Book Store. 


Interior, Deuce Cut-Rate Liquors, southwest corner of Armstrong Avenue and Day Street



Dan Mitchell Pierce between his parents, Mary Carroll-Pierce and Dansby Pierce


Dan Mitchell Pierce (in white jeans and shades) and some of his buddies lounging outside the Magic Wand Car Wash, ca. 1965.
The two on the right may be James (Jimmy) Lively and Wayne Green. The tall one holding the cigarette may be Jimmy Wilkins.
According to Steve Armstrong, the photo was taken "behind the gas station on the northwest corner of Crawford Street and Austin Avenue. You can see the old Vita-Way feed mill in the background."


Dan Mitchell Pierce and pals, in front of 515 North Burnett Avenue

granddaughter of Mary Carroll-Pierce and daughter of Dan Mitchell Pierce


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