Daltonian Flooring Founder Dies in Georgia

Cartersville, GA, June 23, 2008--Vernon R. Mauldin died Thursday, June 19 of cancer at the Cartersville Medical Center.

He began his career in the carpet industry in Whitfield County. After serving four years in the U.S. Air Force, 1951-1955, he returned to Georgia to continue in this field.

In 1961 he moved his family to Cartersville as manager of American Carpet Mills, where he worked until 1968. He began his own company, D and M Carpet, with partner Ed Drohan. This business was sold to the Ozite Corp. Several years later, in 1984, he again formed his own business, Daltonian Flooring, in Dalton, Ga. He moved the business to Calhoun in 2002 and remained owner and president until his death.