Truly Nolen of America Celebrates 85 Years in Business

TUCSON, Ariz. – Truly Nolen of America celebrates 85 years in business this year. Truly Nolen, founder of the company, would have been 95 years old on Feb. 24.

Some celebrations will include sharing throwback photos on the company’s social media, internal contest for employees and external district-wide celebrations.

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"My father Truly David Nolen went to work for my grandfather Truly Wheatfield Nolen’s pest control company Economy Exterminators in 1938 in Miami,” said Scarlett Nolen, president of the company. “My father eventually moved to Tucson, Arizona where he opened his own company called Truly Nolen in 1955. After he purchased his father’s company in 1966, the lineage for his own company now stretched back to 1938 and allowed him to begin growing one of the nation’s largest family-owned businesses to other states besides Arizona and Florida.”

The company has over 80 branch offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. The company also has independently owned-and-operated franchises in Kentucky, Georgia, New Jersey, Canada, Puerto Rico and over 60 countries.

Scarlett Nolen is a third-generation owner of Truly Nolen.

“One of the things I enjoy each year is hearing long-time customers along with former and current employees share their memories on those posts,” said Nolen. “Every year there is at least one memory someone shares that I have never heard before, which in turn helps me learn something about my father that I did not already know.”