FERRING, Robert W.

FERRING, Robert W. (Dyersville, IA, June 14, 1929--Rio Verde, AZ, Sept. 11, 2018) The son of William and Lulu Ferring attended Xavier High School in Dyersville where he excelled at sports, most notably baseball and basketball. He took his switch hitting and lefty pitching prowess to LORAS COLLEGE and briefly considered playing professional baseball with an offer from the Chicago Cubs farm club network in 1948. He graduated from Loras with a BA in business in 1951.

He was drafted into the Army in June of 1951 and devoted two years of his life during the KOREAN CONFLICT as an X-ray technician primarily at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

Returning to Iowa, Ferring a career with INTERSTATE FINANCE CORPORATION for several years. He married Mary Jane McMahon at St. Joseph's Parish on Nov 25th, 1954.

Ferring eventually left his job at Interstate and embarked upon a forty-two year adventure as a family run business owner. Doing much of the labor himself, he initially developed and ran a forty-two unit mobile home park and sales lot just outside of Dubuque. For the next thirty years, he continued to run this community plus several more in the tri-state area including the expansion of Table Mound II and III. In the upcoming years, sales outlets included Mason City, Waterloo, and Clinton, Iowa and Hazel Green Wisconsin. He served as the president of the State Association, and won many honors within the manufactured home community which led to many fun national and international trip awards for him and Jane. He also broadened his business base by diverging into other arenas including furniture stores, partnerships in several restaurants, development of the Colonial Estates residential community, and a Casey's General Store in Asbury, IA. As part of this adventure, Bob also owned and ran two UPS stores and participated in the manufactured home business in Phoenix, AZ.

As the manufactured home business tended to be seasonal, Bob was able to leave his businesses in the capable hands of his manager and as he and Jane started their life in the Phoenix area.

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