Farmers Branch residents Tuesday field a petition with County Judge Al Templeton for an election to incorporate the town.
Thirty-eight persons signed the application, headed by Roy L. Rasberry and Glen Templin. Purpose of incorporated it to make possible the installation of a water system, it was explained.

Dallas Morning News - Jan 30, 1946
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Farmers Branch Mayor W. F. (Bill) Dodson, a Dallas oilman who takes his civic duties seriously, Saturday had enlisted ten women in his campaign to get funds for construction of a city hall and fire station.
Dodson, first mayor of the newly incorporated trade center just north of Dallas, announced Mrs. Truett Good would be chairman of a committee to sell $1 tickets to a community benefit barbecue slated Oct. 17. Other committee members named were Mrs. Tom Field, Mrs. Roy Rasberry, Mrs. J. T. Gilmore, Mrs. Omar Smith, Mrs. Lois Thurlow, Mrs. Roy K. McKee, Mrs. C. Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Robert McClary Jr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson.