in the mid 40's (approx 1944 I
believe). They opened a roofing
and sheet metal shop on Bay Street,
just south of Lakeview. They soon got into
air conditioning and
heating also. A good part
of the property was lost when Bay Street
was
four
laned and
the business was moved, in the late 70's
to Kurt Street.
The original brothers to move and
establish the business
were Roy and
his wife Mabel, Raymond and his wife Zora,
Bob, and
his wife,
Lena, and
Don, his wife Dorothy and their
daughter
Virginia Lee.
Roy and Raymond
had children but they
were grown, when they moved to Eustis, and remained in Ohio.
In 1955 Roscoe, his wife Margaret and son Charles
moved to Eustis, also
from Ohio, and bought out Roy's share of
the business. Roy managed a
fish
camp on
Haines Creek for a few years before moving back to Ohio. Roscoe and
Don
bought out Bob who retired to the Carolinas. Then Jim
(Roscoe's oldest son)
bought out Don.
When Roscoe passed away in 1991
(at the age of 90) Jim inherited the
business. Jim passed
away in July of 1992. Jim had a daughter and
a son Denny. Both re-
mained in the area. Virginia Lee moved to
Seattle ash and
is now retired. She and her
husband
summer in Seattle and travel in the
South in the winter visiting her grown children. Charles has a son
who went into law enforcement. Another
son works for
a school board doing roofing and a daughter
works
for a doctor.
All of the original brothers (Roy, Raymond, Bob, Don and
Roscoe) and
their wives have passed away as well as Jim (Roscoe's oldest).