Roy Spurgeon Baxley, (Nov 7, 1921 – Mar 1, 2014). Roy was born in San Antonio, Texas to Clarence and Annabelle Baxley. His parents moved to Dallas when Roy was still a toddler, and he grew up in the East Dallas area then known as Pleasant Grove. He graduated from Pleasant Grove High School, later known as W.W. Samuel High School.

During World War II, he served in the Army Air Force as an aerial photographer. On June 16, 1944, he married his beloved wife, Leona “Lynn” Bradshaw.

Following World War II, he attended Southern Methodist University, majoring in Public Accounting, and upon completion of his degree, he opened a public practice.

In 1950, John Kenneth Lamb came from Cincinnati, Ohio, to open a new company, Texas Sign Supply. He asked Roy to take the company as a client, and also to serve as Treasurer. Roy accepted, and in 1954 sold his accounting practice to become the full-time President of Texas Sign Supply Co.

The Texas market quickly expanded and Texas Sign Supply moved into larger headquarters on North Walton Street in the Deep Ellum section of Dallas where they continued to grow. In 1962, the company also expanded northwards with the founding of Neo Sign Supply in Oklahoma City to better serve their customers in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri.

The screenprinting market was advancing rapidly and in 1966, they purchased another building across the street at 310 North Walton Street and opened Texas Screen Process Supply Company, Henry Lee (Hank) Granberry who started with the company in 1950 promoted to President of Texas Screen Process Supply and Baxley as Vice-President of Texas Screen Process Supply, and  President of Neo Sign Supply. Eventually, the two companies would expand the 310 North Walton Street location in Dallas and combine the two companies in the same building. Roy served as Chairman of the Board for all three sister-companies. Eventually, Roy Baxley and Hank Granberry would purchase the company from John Lamb.

In 2001, the three companies were merged into a single company with Hank Granberry’s son, Mark Granberry, who like his father had started working as a warehouse clerk as a young man, took the reins of the company. Mark merged all three companies – Texas Sign Supply, Texas Screen Process Supply, and Neo Sign & Screen Supply — into a single company – Graphic Solutions Group with Roy continuing as Chairman of the Board.

In 2006, Mark Granberry purchased the company from Roy Baxley and became sole owner of the Graphic Solutions Group, which evenually became GSG.

Today, GSG is a leading national supplier to the sign, digital imaging, and screen printing industries. The company has moved to larger headquarters at 4601 Spring Valley Rd., Dallas, Texas.

In 2016, GSG acquired John Lamb’s original Cincinnati Sign Supplies, expanding the company to serve Tennessee, Indiana, and Michigan.

Roy was actively involved in the Texas Electric Sign Association, which later became the Texas Sign Association, and with sign company customers all over the southwest region.

Roy lost his wife, Lynn on September 21, 2010. Roy passed on Mar 1, 2014, and was survived by his children, Barbara Baxley-Adkins and her husband, Brown Adkins III, and Jim Baxley and his wife, Debbie; seven grandchildren, David Baxley and his wife, Amy, Matthew Baxley, Elizabeth Baxley, Joel Baxley and his wife, Amy, Stephen Baxley and his fiancé, Jennie, Hannah Baxley and Brown Adkins IV, as well as two great-grandchildren, Briana Oliver and Desmond Baxley (daughter and son of David and Amy), and one great-great-granddaughter, Charlotte (aka, Charlee, daughter of Brianna); in addition, his three “adopted daughters”, Rita Mayamu, and her daughter Emi, Adrine Njuki, and her daughter Priscilla, and Grace Shayo, and her daughter, Jessica.