 Truxal is commemorated by a professorship and scholarship in Sociology at Hood College and a library named after him at Anne Arundel College.In 1920, Truxal graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he joined Phi Kappa Psi.Following that, he attended the Eastern Theological Seminary of the Evangelical and Reformed Church of the United States in Lancaster where he received his degree in divinity and became an ordained minister in 1923.