Submitted by

Kay Cunningham

Dallas Morning News

November 24, 1936

Dallas, Texas

T. B. McQueen, 71

Philanthropist of

Marlin, Succumbs

Native Texan Helped Put

Many Boys Through

College; Burial at Bryan

Special to the News

MARLIN, Texas, Nov 23. – Thomas Bush McQueen, 71, Marlin philanthropist and civic leader whose hobby was helping boys to attend college died Monday night. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at the Catholic Church at Bryan with burial there.

McQueen, who had taken a leading role in the development of Marlin since he moved here in 1895 from Bryan, was secretary of the Marlin Oil Company and a wealthy financier.

McQueen was born at old Independence and was graduated from Texas A. & M. College in 1886. He was a leader in military circles and was Captain of the Bryan Rifles, a crack voluntary organization that won several contests under his leadership. In later years he still kept in touch with the military activities of the college.

He helped untold number of youths to get a college education, sending most of them to A. & M., though he did not make attendance at that school compulsory for boys he found worthy of aid.

The philanthropist was one of the earliest supporters of Senator Tom Connally, being Tom Connally Club when the latter made his first race. McQueen subsequently turned down numerous opportunities to advance himself in politics.

McQueen never married. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. A. R. Cowser of Dallas and Mrs. Jack Fordtran and Mrs. Cabeen Blake of Houston. Among his nephews are James M. and Thomas J. Moroney of Dallas.