90 Years. 90 Stories.
Built on People, Work, and Trust.
Family Story
Patti Purcell Flynn
Where do I begin, the buying of the first Purcell Tire Store or back when my grandfather bought his first Purcell Tire? I was four years old when we bought the DeSoto store. They put me in a stack of tires so I wouldn’t run off or get in trouble. They forgot me, and I fell asleep in there, but I didn’t run off.
Once we had a truck that was overloaded, and I jumped in the car to go with Mom to get cash to pay MODot for that overweight truck, and somebody stole her purse while we were inside, and it had all the cash in it.
On the last day of my 4th grade school year, we were in Walther’s Park, and a Purcell Tire Truck came flying down the road and picked up my mom, and all they said was "Fire." That was how we found out the retread plant in DeSoto burned down, which is how we ended up in Potosi.
They found the building that is now the corporate office with the plant behind it, and the rest is history.
Those are just some of my many memories of when Purcell Tire began and……. I am family.