Don William Flynt

Don William Flynt, devoted family man and successful businessman, peacefully entered Heaven on April 30, 2011, after a courageous battle with a rare cancer. He was lovingly greeted there by his wife Diane, and parents William and Violet Flynt. Don was born in Huntsville, Texas on September 3, 1941. He was a member of the Class of 1960 at Alamo Heights High School. He spent his career in the trucking and logistics business, apprenticing as a dock worker and then a city driver at Red Arrow Freight Lines. Don rose through the managerial ranks supervising the companyÂ's over-the-road operations and managing its largest terminals throughout Texas. He then moved on to work at several nationwide and regional trucking companies as manager of their operations in Houston and San Antonio. Then in 1983 with the help of family and friends, he and business partner Lee Roy Swope founded River City Delivery, which became a successful local trucking service in San Antonio. That company eventually became Bee Trucking, Inc., which was joined by business partner Philip Heinz and his company, San Antonio Merchant Shippers, Inc. Together the three businessmen merged their companies and grew them into a 140-truck operation crossing 48 states specializing in the transportation of commercial goods and clothing. 160 families in the local and surrounding communities enjoyed their livelihoods from the success that Don and his partners created. Don excelled at hands-on managing with his employees because he had himself labored at the driving and dock freight positions in his younger days. He retired in 2008 and continued to pursue his passions of fishing at Port Aransas, working on his property and admiring the beautiful vistas around Blanco, enjoying the company of his children, grandchildren and close friends, and traveling to exotic locales like Europe and Hawaii with an occasional trip to a favorite casino. Don was a member of the San Antonio Country Club. He is survived by his children, Debra and her husband, Todd Cooper; Dana Flynt, James and his wife, Laura Flynt; his grandchildren, Alex Cooper, Aaron Cooper, Jerad Schneider, Andrew Jauregui, John Moreno, James Moreno and William Flynt; his sister, Joy and her husband, Don Farris; his cousin, Ronald and his wife, Sheron Morton; his sister-in-law, Melinda and her husband, James Keenan; his brothers-in-law, Laurence and his wife, Lee Wingerter; Nicholas Wingerter and his wife, Diana Faulkner and numerous nieces and their children. SERVICE WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 2011 2:00 P.M. PORTER LORING CHAPEL 1101 MCCULLOUGH Ministers David Gardner and John Kammrath officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to ThriveWell Cancer Foundation, P.O. Box 29331, San Antonio, TX 78229 or at www.thrivewell.org/donate. Interment to follow at Sunset Memorial Park.