Olive Branch, MS 38654
Business: (901) 331-5963
Home: (662) 895-1251
dyanne1251@aol.com
Soon after graduation my mother and I relocated to California where we had family from Denmark residing. Within a short time we moved to Ohio where we also had family. While living there, I attended Beauty School (I was one of two male students!) and received my Cosmetology license, but I actually ended up in the car business and remaind in that line of work a good portion of my life.
During the 1970's I managed several Porsche/Audi/Mercedes Benz delaerships in Florida before landing in Memphis, TN where the opportunity presented itself to be General Manager/President?Co-Owner of the Mercedes Benz/BMW/Rolls Royce franchise there.
In the early 1980's my cabinet-maker father (who lived in Homestead, FL) passed away and that event opened yet another door for me...I became an unfinished and antique reproductions furniture dealer and also operated a refinishing/antique restoration/repair woodshop. In the meantime, I married my wife DyAnne on 1st January 1983. She ran the business side-by-side with me for nearly 10 years until Hurricane Andrew blew in and wiped us out in August 1992.
Several months after the hurricane, we returned to the Memphis area (Olive Branch, MS) where my wife is from and still has family. We owned and operated a full-service carwash and lube centre in Memphis from 1994 to 2001. Although now semi-retired, a few years ago I started a company - Over the Curb LLC - so I'm back in the car business again - auto brokering and wholesaling new and used cars/trucks/RV's that I buy at several different auction houses in the Memphis and Olive Branch areas.
Two sons, both married with families, live in Akron, OH. I am "Papa John" to four young grandchildren.
DyAnne and I enjoy traveling in our 40' Winnebago Journey motor home whenever we have the chance to get away. I also like to fish and hunt, and have been known to employ my "Dainsh Freen Thumb" around our few acres of MS property.