Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Welcome Bruce!

We want to welcome our new sales employee Bruce Shuck to Family Marine! 

Bruce has an awesome and inspiring story. 

He grew up on his family farm about 15 minutes outside of Willmar and is living there today. 

Bruce joined the military in 1974 and served in field artillery in Germany until 1976. March 18th 2015 is his 41st anniversary from joining the army!

When he got back from the army he got married and had two daughters. He then worked on his own dairy farm. After milking cows he decided to go back to school and got a degree in Business Administration from Southwest State University.

He then went into many different businesses including selling grain bins, commercial feed, and selling conveyors in Parcel Packages Industry for 9 years.

In February 2000 doctors found a small lump in his neck, which turned out to be non-hodgkin’s lymphoma. Bruce said this was a life-changing event for him that makes him cherish every single day and take nothing for granted. Bruce has been in remission since 2004. He works out and eats healthy to prolong the time of, unfortunately, when the cancer will become active again.

Bruce loves working with and being around people and is very excited to help assist customers with family oriented products like boats and pontoons

We are very excited to have him here at Family Marine!


Welcome Nancy!

Welcome Nancy Larson as our new bookkeeper! Nancy was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She has a degree in Accounting from Ridgewater College. She is married to a wonderful farmer named LeRoy. 

When she walked into our store for her interview she had many memories come back from when she was a child. Her first boat was a boat that her dad had made completely by himself with instructions from a magazine. It matched their red and white Dodge car.

They bought a lot near Brookings on the lake and had tons of fun with their neighbors and church groups out boating and skiing. One of her greatest memories of her dad is having him teaching them how to water-ski. She would go watch the ski shows in Wisconsin and they were so inspired by them that they went back to their lake and would try out the tricks that they saw. She would climb up on her dad’s shoulders while skiing and they also got to the point where they could build pyramids. Her family still enjoys going out to the lake today teaching her grandchildren how to ski.

Nancy has been enjoying her time here and can’t wait to learn more about our company and boats.