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JIM: Remembering Reed Combest & Combest Motor Co. The sad word of the passing of Reed Combest and mention of the auto dealership he ran on Jamestown Hill brings back so many memories to those of us who are now in their withering, out-of-warranty years who have vivid memories of Luther Wheet, the Gulf Station, Judge Jerry Vaughan's father, Ebby Lawrence and the many businesses he ran; Feese Motors, and Russell Arnold and his wife, Bernice, and the too few summers she had maybe the very best meal ever sold in Columbia: A & W Root Beer served in frosty mugs accompanied by split-and-fried hot dogs. Halcyon days, those. Raises issues of just what all was still there, on that corner. then; as well as the nagging age old how do you tell a Vaughn from a Vaughan? and remember which were geniuses mechanically & academically & which were geniuses in the insurance, hunting/fishing dress shop enterprises? - EW About: Reed Combest, 88, Pembroke, FL/formerly of Columbia, KY (1929-2018) By JIM The Combest Motor Co. Dodge - Plymouth dealership, successor to Wheet Motor Co. and located "Highway 55 at Tutt St.," opened on November 17, 1954. The owners were E.A. (Ebby) Lawrence, Mark Vaughan, and Reed Combest. By March 1955 (and likely before), the company had picked up the Allis-Chalmers franchise as well. In early April '55, Lawrence sold his interest in the business to his two partners in order to devote more time to his wholesale candy distribution business. The last mention I found of Combest Motor was an ad in the July 20, 1955 News advertising the Allis-Chalmers line. By mid-October 1955, ownership of the Plymouth dealership had passed to George Vance (Vance Motors), who in turn sold his business, including the DeSoto, Plymouth, and Ferguson dealerships, to Feese Motors, owned by brothers J.E. and W.M. Feese, near the end of 1955. One of the "Personals" columns in January 1956 noted in passing that Russell Arnold and wife, late of Ottawa, IL, had "purchased the service station formerly owned by Reed Combest." An ad in the same edition made reference to Arnold's Gulf Service, "On Jamestown Street. . .Located in Building formerly occupied by Reed Combest." This story was posted on 2018-05-11 12:42:26
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