he moved to Leesburg from Edwardsburg, Mich. in 1985. He was a retired sheet-metal journeyman. He was a Protestant. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He was a Scottish Rite Mason.

A former sheet metal journeyman for a supplier to Studebaker, he enlisted his then 15-year-old son, Kevin, to help build and install gutters and roofing. "I always tell everybody I was the first ...