to the October 2010 Senior Focus.

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For Hey, Larson,
Meinders,
Sexton and
Sturdevant
The Road
to Success
Began in
Pipestone
County
Thursday,
Oct. 28, 2010
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010
Sturdevant’s Auto Parts has grown to be one of the largest auto
parts suppliers in the Midwest. But all Jack Sturdevant initially
intended to do was build...
‘One more store
after Pipestone’
By Debra Fitzgerald
Jack Sturdevant, 81, will tell you that he’s
beginning to have some problems with his legs,
but it’s not at all apparent from the pace he
keeps.
“You don’t mind following me,” he checks, before
leading a brisk tour through his 100,000-square
foot warehouse on S. Shirley Ave. in Sioux Falls
that includes the S.A.E. Warehouse and corporate
office building, a Refinish Supply Center (a paint
and body shop) and Sturdevant’s Auto Parts retail
store.
The place is a buzz of activity. A light signals
emergency orders, conveyer belts carry packages,
employees operate equipment and wrap orders,
and trucks line a dock leading into the warehouse
awaiting loads for supplies that will arrive at
Sturdevant’s locations and customers by the next
morning.
All along the tour, employees say the same
thing: Hi Jack. Hey Jack. How’s it going, Jack.
“That’s my paw print,” Sturdevant says,
pointing to a handprint in the concrete that
reads, ‘J.C.S 1998’ as he moves out a side door
of the warehouse to enter the additional 60,000
square foot of warehouse space that’s currently
under construction. By December, the space will
be stocked with auto parts.
The reporter remarks that that’s a lot of auto
parts.
Jack Sturdevant in his Sioux Falls office with his
right hand “Pal,” a white labrador retriever. Pal accompanies Sturdevant to work every day. Pipestone
Publishing/Debra Fitzgerald
Sturdevant
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Sturdevant
“That’s a lot of auto parts,”
Sturdevant affirms with a laugh.
What facilitated the need for the
additional space?
“Additional business,” he said.
And where is that coming from?
“People are driving their cars
longer,” Sturdevant said. “They
realize they can go further, a
couple 100,000 miles. They keep
them longer; that helps us. Once
they’re five years old, we start
selling parts.”
There are also fewer auto dealers
now so auto parts companies have
filled in that gap. And the dealers
that do exist don’t always buy
supplies, for example, from the
mother companies.
“The auto parts business is good,”
Sturdevant said. “We wouldn’t be
building a 60,000 addition if the
future didn’t look good.”
Sturdevant’s son, Tim, is the
president of the Sioux Falls
operation. In addition, the
company recently launched a
30,000-square foot facility in Rapid
City. Modeled after the S.A.E.
corporate office building, the
new facility includes the Pawnee
Warehouse, the Refinish Supply
Center and the Sturdevant’s Auto
Parts retail store. Sturdevant’s
oldest son, John, is president of
this operation.
The
Pawnee
Warehouse
supplies Sturdevant locations
and customers in western South
Dakota, parts of Nebraska and
parts of North Dakota; the S.A.E.
Warehouse supplies eastern South
Dakota, parts of North Dakota,
Minnesota and Iowa.
“We’re really on a roll,” Sturdevant
said. “We’ve got 45 stores (operated
by partner/managers) and a lot of
independent customers: they own
the store, but we supply them.”
Did you ever dream the business
would grow this large?
“No,” he said, chuckling. “I just
dreamed about having one more
store after Pipestone.”
Back in his corner office after the
tour, Sturdevant sits down behind
his desk with his white laborador
retriever, Pal, by his side. He and
Pal make the trip into the office
together every morning.
“People say, ‘Sturdy, what the
heck you workin’ for,’” Sturdevant
said. “Well, I work because I enjoy
it. I get excited to come to work
every day.”
A picture of the Calumet
Hotel and the Pipestone County
Courthouse hang on one wall of
his office. In a conference room,
a pipestone pipe hangs above
a framed, 1972 article from the
Pipestone County Star about
Sturdevant Auto Electric, with
pictures of his father, the business
and three-year-old Jack.
Another
picture
shows
Sturdevant running the ball during
his football days with the Gophers
at the University of Minnesota.
“I played for Minnesota when
they were good,” he said.
A 1947 graduate from Pipestone
High School — Sturdevant was the
first inductee into the Pipestone
Athletic Hall of Fame — Sturdevant
went on to the University largely to
play football.
“I was a jock; I wasn’t a student,”
he said. “I had pretty good success
there early; for some reason they
caught on to a red-headed farm boy
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from Pipestone and wrote about it
quite a bit. Then I got busted up.
I was a running back and I just
wasn’t fleet enough anymore. I had
three screws in my leg and a knee
they couldn’t fix. I turned around
and went back to Pipestone and
my dad’s garage and I didn’t look
back to football; I hardly even read
the papers anymore.”
‘One shelf at a time’
The garage Sturdevant returned
home to was founded by his father,
A.M. ‘Art’ Sturdevant in 1932, at
101 Second St. NE — the current
location of Pipestone Publishing’s
S.O.S. Office Supplies.
In
those
pre-vocationaltraining days, Art learned the
business from his two older
brothers: Charles Sturdevant,
who opened Sturdevant Auto
Electric in Wahpeton, S.D., and
Bill Sturdevant, who learned from
Charles before opening his own
business in Brookings.
His apprenticeship over, Art
moved his family — Jack’s mother,
Lola, and three-year-old Jack —to
Pipestone to open Sturdevant Auto
Electric in Pipestone. His father’s
motto was, ‘If it’s electrical, we can
fix it.’
“My dad had a greasy old garage
to your eyes today, but he was a
technician,” Sturdevant said. “He’d
probably be a computer technician
today because he was ahead of his
time on this stuff. Cars were just
coming out and refrigerators were
just coming in. He was the first guy
who could fix those commercial
ones.”
But when Jack returned home
from the University of Minnesota,
he had what he described as
“tunnel vision” to move out of the
service business and into the auto
parts business.
A frameful of Sturdevant — and Pipestone — history on Sturdevant’s conference room wall in his Sioux Falls office.
Jack Sturdevant is pictured with his father, Art, in both the bottom right and top left photos in the frame. Below, Jack
Sturdevant, right, talking with an employee at the 100,000 square foot S.A.E. Warehouse in Sioux Falls. Pipestone
Publishing/Debra Fitzgerald
“So my buddies from
the University would
come down (to Pipestone)
and they’d say, ‘Sturdy,
whatcha doin’ down here;
you could be a big man
around Minneapolis,’” he
said. “It was hard to say,
‘Well, I’ve got a vision to
start an auto parts store
and grow it.’”
He said he had a hard
time explaining it to his
new bride also: Nadine,
Sturdevant
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‘Toddy’ was a Minneapolis girl
whom Sturdevant met on a blind
date during Homecoming and
married in 1951 (aside from John
and Tim, they also have two
daughters: Sally Sturdevant and
Ann Nichols).
“She’d say, ‘Well gee, Jack our
friends have a television set, why
don’t we have a television set? Our
friends have got a boat and go
water skiing, why don’t we?’ I said,
‘Toddy, stick with me; I think we
can do something here.’”
She did. And he did.
But there was a lot of hard work
along the way.
“There were two major auto
parts stores in Pipestone back
then,” Sturdevant said. “One out
of St. Paul and one big one out
of Sioux Falls. They were well
equipped, well established and
I was a,” he paused, “garage. I
wanted to go into auto parts and
compete with them. Well, they
basically laughed at me. They told
me I might sell a few things, but
I’d never be a big player. Well, that
gave me a little more incentive.”
Sturdevant’s
father
was
successful and hardworking, but
he was conservative: the family
lived in an apartment atop the
garage to save money.
“He moved into that concrete
block building with an apartment
upstairs and there was no
insulation in the place,” Sturdevant
said. “We had frost on the walls in
the winter. He was successful and
had put away money and never
thought about moving us to bigger
and better accommodations.
He could run downstairs in the
morning and come back up for
lunch and go down again. So when
I came back from college, they
were still in there.”
When Sturdevant told his father
he wanted to go into the auto
parts business, his father told him
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warehouse. Pipestone Publishing/Debra Fitzgerald
they were not going to borrow any
money for expansion. At the end
of the month they’d pay their bills,
take $65 a week for their wages,
and if they had any remaining,
Sturdevant could put it into auto
parts.
So Sturdevant redesigned the
service area and built himself a
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“One shelf at a time,” is how
Sturdevant said he built the
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‘well I’m in the auto parts business.’
And they’d kind of laugh, ‘Ah,
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Hey rides bus to successful career
By Steven Swenson
The year 1962 marked the
beginning of a new business
enterprise for 74-year old former
Jasper resident Chuck Hey. That
was the year he began what has
become, to date, a 48-year career in
the bus transportation business.
Hey said thinking back, it doesn’t
seem possible that since 1962 he’s
been in the bus business.
“I guess I would have to say I’ve
been lucky. I keep telling people
that I’m lucky,” he said of his
business success. “I’m convinced
of that myself. The Lord has smiled
on me.”
Hey grew up in Jasper, moving
to town with his parents, Cyril and
Gladys Hey, in 1938 when he was
two years old.
After graduating from Jasper
High School in 1954, he attended
two years of business school at
the Minnesota School of Business
before he returned to Jasper, got
married and began work at his
father’s International Harvester
and New Idea farm implement
shop.
He and his wife Patsy have three
children: daughters Mali and Mary
and son Steven.
When the implement shop
closed in 1962, Chuck said they
were looking for a reason to stay
in Jasper when the opportunity
came forward to possibly operate
the Jasper school buses.
“I had always been somewhat
interested in that type of business,”
Hey said. “So after the implement
closed and several of the small
repair garages were closing in
Jasper, the school district was
having a problem keeping their
equipment repaired so I got to
talking with them.
“Maybe I could do a good
enough job for them so I could
make a living doing their school
busing,” he said, “and they didn’t
have to worry about where they
were going to get their repairs
done anymore.”
Hey was able to negotiate a
contract with the Jasper School
District to do the school busing
for them, thus starting what has
been a long career in the bus
transportation business.
Jasper was the only school bus
service Hey operated until 1973
when the opportunity came up
to expand and he purchased
the Willmar Bus Line from the
operator up there. Then in 1975,
he purchased Southwest Coaches
in Marshall and in 1979, he bid on
and was awarded the contract to
provide school bus transportation
for the Sioux Falls school district
and School Bus, Inc. was formed.
The Sioux Falls opportunity
came
about
through
his
involvement with the Minnesota
School Bus Operators Association
(MSBOA).
“Sioux Falls was having some
problems with their operator, in
that his business was failing, and
they were looking for someone
to take it to bid,” Hey said. “It
turned out I was president of
the MSBOA at the time and the
business manager got my name
from someplace. He called me
up and we started to talk and he
wanted to know if I would help
them decide what they should do
and help them find our how to go
about it.”
Once he finished helping the
Sioux Falls district, he was then
invited to bid on the contract
and has been there ever since.
Currently, it’s the only bus service
he owns.
In April 1985, Hey sold the Jasper
school bus service to Don Kneip.
Then in 1986, he sold Southwest
Coaches to his brother Marvin
who had been managing the
service since its purchase. That
same year he sold the Willmar bus
service to Dick Plahn, who had
been managing that service.
His son Steven, a 1980 Jasper
High School graduate, joined the
business in 2000 and currently
serves as the president of School
Bus, Inc.
During the 48 years he has been
in the bus business, Hey has been
active on a state and national
level with bus transportation
associations.
At the state level he was a
director and served as president
of the association; on a national
level he served as president of the
National School Transportation
Association for a number of years.
“I do believe strongly about
being a part of your local, state or
even national association,” he said.
“We found there are many ways to
share ideas and help one another
with problems and solving those
problems.”
“I’ve often said that I don’t think
I’ve ever had a brilliant idea,” Hey
said. “But I’ve sure taken a lot of
other people’s.”
Besides
school
bus
transportation, Hey has been
involved with other business
ventures as well. In 2002, Hey and
Bill Sexton purchased the Jasper
State Bank and owned it until 2006
when they sold it to Peoples Bank.
Hey is also a minority owner
of Sioux Falls Sports, LLC, which
owns the Sioux Falls Stampede
hockey team and the Sioux Falls
Pheasants baseball team.
Chuck Hey and his wife Patsy have had a successful career in the bus
transportation business. The couple lived in Jasper for many years before
moving to Sioux Falls. Hey is currently the Chairman of the Board of School
Bus, Inc. and son Steven is the president. Contributed photo
“That was probably more Bill’s
idea than anybody,” he said of
how he got involved with Sioux
Falls Sports. “He was bound and
determined he wanted to get
involved with that and I think
to be honest, he was looking for
people so he could say he wasn’t
just an outsider coming into town
but was involving people from the
community in small ownership.”
He said Sexton is the principle
owner. A few others, including
himself, have a small ownership —
he illustrated how small by holding
his thumb and index finger close
together.
But there is little more to his
and Sexton’s involvement with the
Canaries-turned-Pheasants.
Hey said he and Bill have talked
about it a couple of times that he
could remember when he was in
high school going down to watch
the Canaries and there would
be Bill and his parents to see the
game.
“My dad just loved baseball so
we were down there quite a bit,”
Hey said. “So I guess it is kind
of appropriate, ironic or funny
that here we were as teenagers
watching the Sioux Falls Canaries
and now 50 years later, we are part
of the Canaries.”
This was in the late 40s and 50s
when Howard Wood Field was
still located in Nelson Park at 10th
Street and Cliff Ave. The Canaries
played as a Chicago Cubs affiliate
in the original Northern League
from 1942-1953.
Hey said growing up in a small
town does have an influence, but
it is hard to say exactly what it is.
“For me, I think it was more so
growing up in a community with
a small school where you can
participate in many things without
being a superstar at anything,”
he said. “You could be in chorus,
basketball, band, class plays and
you didn’t need to be a star to
participate.”
Also living in a small town, Hey
said he learned to trust people
more. He learned many people in
a small town had a very good work
ethic and they were honest.
“Your deals were handshake
deals and you didn’t need to have
20 pages of legal documents to get
that done,” he said.
Another thing about living in a
small town is a person could have
a passel of friends because you
knew everybody. You knew people
from church; you knew people
from the community; and knew
people from school.
“I’ve told people before that I
would like to have people say—if
they were going to say anything
about me—that I was fair,” Hey
said. “I’ve tried to be fair and I
think I learned that from Jasper.
I think most of the people were
honest, trustworthy and fair as I
grew up.”
He explained that when he was
Hey
Claire and Margaret Larson with
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Margaret, Claire, Kyle and Kevin.
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By Kyle Kuphal
The Larson family
keeps trucking along
Claire and Margaret Larson credit God,
family and hard work for their success
Claire Larson has found great
success in trucks and agriculture
during his 77 years and it all began
in Pipestone.
He grew up on a farm near
Garretson, S.D. — one of eight
children — during the 1930s.
Times were tough. His grandfather
lost his business during the Great
Depression and his father found
work with the Works Progress
Administration (WPA) building
bridges and dams near Garretson.
His family moved to Pipestone
when he was 10. At 17, Claire left
Pipestone High School and joined
the Air Force, where he earned
his diploma during basic training
in San Antonio, Texas. He spent
four years in the Air Force, two of
them in The Philippines during the
Korean War.
Claire was discharged from the
Air Force in Oklahoma in 1954 and
returned to Pipestone a short time
later. It was here that he got his
start in the trucking industry, with
Larson
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Herman Meinders’ journey from
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By Kyle Kuphal
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began in Pipestone. Herman credits
his father, and his youth on the farm
in Pipestone, with the work ethic that
made him so successful.
“My father came from the old
country and he instilled it in us on the
farm,” Herman said.
According to the biography
“Flowers to Philanthropy, The Life of
Herman Meinders,” by Bob Burke and
Tom Butler, Herman’s father Harold
moved to the U.S. from Germany in
1929 and took a job on a dairy farm
near Flandreau. In 1931, Harold met
his bride-to-be, Frances Buntjer. The
couple was married in North Dakota in
1936 and settled in Pipestone.
On Nov. 15, 1937 Herman was born. His father put him
to work around the family’s farm at a young age — feeding
pigs, chickens and calves, milking cows and providing fresh
water for the animals. Herman graduated from Pipestone
High School in 1955 and moved to Oklahoma City to attend
Oklahoma City University (OCU) and study salesmanship.
“I left Minnesota because it gets kind of cold there,”
Herman said.
After one year at the university he decided if it was
that much warmer in Oklahoma, it must be even better in
Florida. He transferred to Florida State University, but had
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and since their marriage
in 1986 the couple has
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trouble finding employment, ran
out of money and dropped out of
school.
Eventually he moved to
Tampa and found work at a Gulf
Supermarket on Hillsboro Street.
His work ethic quickly impressed
the store’s manager, Melvin
Childers, and in 1957, the two men
decided to buy a bar together in
Tampa.
It didn’t take long for Herman
to see the bar was not going to
provide a living for both of them.
Then one night a man named
Dale Murphy came to the bar
for a drink, and put in motion
events that would one day make
Herman Meinders one of the most
recognizable names in the floral
industry.
“He had a suit coat on and a
tie,” Herman said. “Sammy’s Bar
had never seen anyone with a suit
on.”
Herman was impressed — not
just with the suit, but with all the
checks that filled Murphy’s wallet.
Murphy, he discovered, was a
traveling salesman with National
Florist Directory. The two men
quickly hit it off over a game of
shuffleboard and at the end of
the night Herman asked Murphy
how he might get a job with the
company.
Murphy hired him on the
spot, and over the next few years
Herman spent most of his time on
the road, selling advertising for the
National Florist Directory in all 50
states and parts of Canada.
“I called on every flower shop
in 37 states,” Herman said. “I got
to know the shops quite well.”
That
knowledge
of
the
business paid off. In the early
1960s, Herman began working
for another company called
Florafax, eventually becoming
vice president of sales. But when
the company was bought out in
1970, Herman was demoted to a
sales representative.
The worst part was he didn’t
find out about the demotion
from the company, but from his
clients who saw his new title in the
Florafax directory. It took only two
minutes for Herman to decide to
quit and return to Oklahoma City
to start his own business.
“It really helped me a lot because
I had never planned on going into
competition with them,” Herman
said. “The main thing it taught me
was what not to do.”
In 1970, just months after
quitting his job with Florafax,
Herman
founded
American
Floral Services, Inc. (AFS). By the
end of the year his sales people,
some of them his former Florafax
coworkers, were on the road selling
for AFS.
“We didn’t pay as well, but they
believed in me,” Herman said.
Within two years, Herman
realized he needed help to run
the company and convinced his
brother Bob Meinders to come
aboard as treasurer of AFS.
Herman’s
reputation
with
florists around the country and
the fact that the company offered
rebates and didn’t charge clients to
send orders, like other companies
did, helped the business grow
rapidly. In 1984, Herman helped
start, and was elected vice
chairman of, the World Flower
Council. The position helped him
connect with florists around the
world and expand his business
internationally.
That same year, Herman and
Bob decided to hire Tom Butler
to work with Herman for a while
before taking over as president of
AFS in October 1985. The move
allowed Herman to let Bob and
Butler manage the day-to-day
operations, while he focused on
growth.
In 1985, Herman met, LaDonna,
who was director of alumni
relations for OCU, was assigned
to write a story about Herman for
OCU’s Focus magazine. They were
married on May 3, 1986.
Since their marriage, the
Meinders’ have devoted much
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Herman Meinders (right) with his wife, LaDonna, and his brother, Bob (left) and sister Linda (Meinders) Rice, dedicate
the Meinders Community Library in February 2003. Herman and LaDonna donated $1 million toward the library in
honor of the Meinders’ parents, Harold and Frances, who raised the family in Pipestone. Pipestone Publishing file
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of their time and fortune to
philanthropy. It all started,
Herman said, when OCU called
them about a donation toward a
garden the school was building.
“We’ve been very blessed,”
Herman said. “And we thought,
well, we needed to do something
with our money.”
The Meinders Community
Library in Pipestone, for which
the Meinders’ provided $1 million
in memory of Herman’s parents,
is but one of the many structures
in at least five states that bear the
Meinders name.
According
to
www.
academyofachievement.org, the
Meinders name also appears
on OCU’s Meinders School of
Business; The Meinders Gardens
in downtown Oklahoma City;
Meinders Hall of Mirrors at the
Oklahoma City Civic Center; the
Meinders Scout Shop in Oklahoma
City; and the Meinders Hall at
the famous Crystal Cathedral in
Garden Grove, Calif.
In 1994, the Meinders’ sold
the majority of AFS to Chemical
Venture Partners (CVP), an
investment arm of Chemical
Bank. Then in 2000, AFS merged
with Telefloral, owned by Stewart
Resnick, and the Meinders sold
the remaining 16 percent of their
stock in the company.
Herman said his biggest
accomplishment in life was the
building of AFS from scratch. His
success could serve as a lesson to
others.
“If you feel you’ve got a good
idea, a lot of times you need to just
go with it and believe in yourself,”
Herman said.
As far as future goals, he said
he’d like to become more involved
with organizations that help others
help themselves, like Habitat for
Humanity.
“We’ve been very involved in
that,” he said. “I think it’s a great
organization.”
He also recommends that
people who want to get involved
in charitable giving research
organizations before giving to find
out what they really do.
Today the Meinders’ devote
much of their time to projects at
OCU and split their time between
their home in Oklahoma City and
their 6,000 acre Diamond H Ranch
near Cookson, Okla. But even their
ranch will one day be part of the
legacy of their giving: in 2005, the
Meinders’ began giving the ranch
piece by piece to the Last Frontier
Council of the Boy Scouts.
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business.”
So he did. And just as Sturdevant
got into the auto parts business
shelf-by-shelf, he got into being
one of the largest auto parts
suppliers in the Midwest by
opening one store at a time, each
operated by a partner/manager.
“That was my model,” he said.
“You go in at book and if anything
happens, you want out, you go
out at book. We pay you off in 30
days and you’re out. That’s the
secret. I’ve had a lot of people who
have left for some reason, who
have retired, and we’ve always left
friends.”
After the Slayton store came
one in Luverne, then Flandreau
and Tyler and before he knew it,
he had a total of eight stores he
was servicing out of the Pipestone
location.
“I had a lot of investment in
inventory,” Sturdevant said. “So I
thought I’d better get this inventory
into a larger population area.”
He moved the warehouse
portion of the business from
Pipestone to Sioux Falls in 1972
into an urban renewal area (he
had previously moved the Second
St. store to Main Street, where it
remains to this day).
“They were going to knock
down the building I was in so I got
a special loan,” Sturdevant said —
the first borrowed money since
he began the auto parts business.
With it, he built a combination
store/warehouse of about 30,000
square feet.
“My dad was down there and he
walked in and I said, ‘This is all the
room I’ll ever need,’” Sturdevant
said.
But he underestimated his
needs. He added onto the space
three times before he ran out of
room and started looking for what
would become his present location
on S. Shirley Ave., just off I-29.
Today, the location is a retail
hub, and the Sturdevant office/
warehouse complex surrounded
by big box stores, strip malls,
restaurants and cinemas. Back
then, it was farmland that
Sturdevant purchased from a
farmer named Swenson.
Though Sturdevant moved the
headquarters of his business to
Sioux Falls, the family remained
on their farm north of Pipestone
where they had a hired man for the
cattle and crops and, at one time,
25 Arabian horses. Sturdevant
bought a townhouse in Sioux
Falls and he’d leave the farm each
Monday morning, returning on
Friday evening.
“Toddy just moved down here
not long ago,” he said. “You just
feel it’s time. The kids were grown,
the grandkids were all down here,
the people wanted to buy the (farm
north of Pipestone) place. But
we love Pipestone; Toddy’s best
friends are up in Pipestone. She
goes up there twice a week. Our
contacts in Pipestone are strong.”
Those strong contacts prompted
Sturdevant to donate $100,000
recently to the Pipestone United
Way, with instructions for $75,000
of that to go to the Pipestone
Area Educational Enrichment
Foundation. Sturdevant said part
of that money was used for the
new scoreboard the Foundation
purchased for Paulsen Field
last October. In addition, Toddy
supports the Pipestone Performing
Arts Center.
The Sturdevants recently built a
home in Brandon, S.D. — “I finally
found a little acreage that I couldn’t
hear the neighbors next door to
me,” Sturdevant said — and they
own 750 acres in Brookings County
where he hunts, having signed a
perpetual easement on the land to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
For four months out of the year, he
and Toddy travel to their home in
Bonita Springs, Fla.
For business advice, Sturdevant
summed up what worked for him
over the past 60 years since he first
had his vision at 21 years old.
“The banks are darn tough to
deal with these days so you’ve got
to start small, save your money,
work hard and after 60 years you
might get ahead,” he said.
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Insurance key to Sexton’s success
By Steven Swenson
Bill Sexton, a Jasper native, was
an outstanding athlete in high
school as well as a basketball
standout
at
Saint
John’s
University in Collegeville. His
involvement in sports continued
after college when he started his
career as a teacher and coach but
after several years, that changed when
he moved on to a different career—
insurance.
He and his wife, Joyce, currently
reside in Las Vegas, Nevada but also
have homes in Minnesota and Florida.
The couple has four children.
“I wouldn’t trade growing up in
Jasper,” said the 77-year-old Sexton.
“While growing up I was able to have
a lot of interaction with
adults and learned a lot
of things.”
That
interaction
came from his work at
his father’s lumberyard,
plus work at the stone
quarry and other jobs.
This interaction also
led to him having, as he
put it, many surrogate
aunts and uncles while
growing up: Everybody
knew everyone else and
would look out for each
other.
Sexton
said
one
person who influenced
him while he was
growing up was Norman
Hoyme.
“He was the school
principal
and
also
coached junior high
sports,” he said. “He
taught me not only
about sports but also
helped me grow as a
young man.”
While at Saint John’s
University,
Sexton
captained the team for
two years and as an allconference player in
1954 as a junior, he set a
conference record with
a 49-point game against
Macalester that stood
for almost 50 years.
Bill Sexton, shown here
with his wife Joyce, grew
up in Jasper and went on to
have a successful career
in the insurance business.
He is also involved in
several sports related
endeavors
including
minority ownership, with
his wife, of the Minnesota
Timberwolves, a member
of the National Basketball
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Following
graduation,
Sexton taught and coached
for one year at Onamia and
then for six years at Slayton
High School. Coaching and
teaching is something he
said he wanted to do since he
was young.
Sexton said teaching and
coaching was a great learning
experience for him. By doing
things with students and
adults, it helped him further
with interaction with people,
which was beneficial later in
the insurance business.
He was teaching and
coaching at the time in
Slayton when he started
selling insurance during
the summer months to help
support his family. He was
also a member of the Marshall
National Guard and one of
the insurance people from an
agency in Marshall brought
him into the business, then
later suggested Sexton join
full-time.
“I told him if I wasn’t in a
management position within
a year, I would go back to
teaching and coaching,”
he said. He attained the
management position and
didn’t return to teaching.
Thus began his 30-year
career in the insurance
business. He is a former
owner and partner of Old
Northwest
Agents—an
insurance brokerage firm in
Minneapolis.
“The
agency
was
like a family, a quality
organization,” Sexton said.
“Business was very good
and eventually we were in 46
states.”
“The one thing I’ve learned
over the years is to delegate
responsibility and authority
and to expect accountability,”
he said. “If you are going to
build an organization you
need to have this.”
His involvement with
sports came about once
again in 1994 when he
headed a group of investors
who attempted to purchase
the Minnesota Timberwolves
professional basketball team.
He was unable to purchase
the team but he and his
wife did become minority
owners.
“This opened some doors
and I met some good quality
people,” Sexton said.
Sexton said that though that
he has been able to do many
things in his life, probably
the biggest disappointment
to him was when he failed to
purchase the Timberwolves.
One of the people he met
through his business dealings
was Brian Schoenborn from
St. Cloud. The duo decided to
bring the United States Hockey
League (USHL) to Sioux Falls.
Along with two other fellow
investors, they renovated
the Sioux Falls Arena and
in fall 1999, the Sioux Falls
Stampede debuted. Sexton
and Schoenborn would later
buy and eventually sell the
Des Moines Bucs and another
USHL franchise in Sioux City.
The ownership group is
called Sioux Falls Sports,
LLC and is owned by five
individuals.
Sexton
is
majority owner and serves as
the company’s Chairman of
the Board. Minority partners
include Schoenborn, the
managing partner of the St.
Cloud branch of the Leonard
Street law firm; Sioux Falls
businessmen Don Dunham,
Jr.; Chuck Hey (also a Jasper
native); and Gary Weckwerth.
In December 2009, Sioux
Falls Sports purchased the
Sioux Falls Canaries Baseball
Club, a member of Northern
League, an independent
professional baseball league.
The group changed the
team name to the Sioux Falls
Pheasants.
The group also owns SFS
Management Services, a
facility management firm that
operates the Sioux Falls Ice &
Recreation Center for the City
of Sioux Falls.
Sexton and Hey also
partnered to purchase the
Jasper State Bank in 2002,
which they subsequently sold
in 2006 to Peoples Bank.
“A lot of my success has
come through osmosis,”
Sexton said. “If you treat
people good and get to know
good people, you learn a lot.”
He retired from the
insurance business 13 years
ago. For him, retirement has
been hard because he misses
the people.
Even though it has been
hard, he likes to stay busy.
He likes to hunt, fish, ski
and a host of other outdoor
activities. In fact a couple of
weeks ago he was hunting
Sexton
pheasants with his brother Dick
on a preserve he is a member of
near the Twin Cities.
Over the years, Sexton has given
back to the community, which
includes his hometown, other
communities in the area, his alma
mater and other causes.
The Sextons have been major
donors to Saint John’s University.
Sexton Commons is named for
Bill’s parents; Sexton Arena is
named for Bill and Joyce; and
Hilger Atrium in the Science Center
is named for Joyce’s parents.
The most recent gift to Saint
John’s includes a $10 million
endowment, the Joyce and
William Sexton Family Endowed
Scholarship, to enable young
men from all walks of life and all
Larson
a job as a part time truck driver and
another at a motor supply store. It
was the humble beginnings of a
very successful future.
“I started my own trucking
business (Larson Truck Service)
in 1959,” Claire said. “I bought
one truck and started hauling
livestock.”
He built his business up hauling
livestock for farmers around the
Pipestone area. His wife, Margaret,
dispatched the trucks and kept
the books. Eventually, that one
truck turned into a fleet of 13 and
he expanded the business from
strictly livestock to grain and other
produce.
He credits much of his early
success to a Pipestone banker
named Stan Morgan who was
willing to take a chance on a young
entrepreneur. Looking back, Claire
said Morgan was a mentor to him.
“He believed in me,” Claire
said. “I didn’t have any money and
he trusted me and it helped me a
lot.”
In 1979, Claire’s keen eye saw a
change on the horizon. He noticed
that many of the smaller farming
operations he hauled for were
disappearing and being replaced
by larger feedlots.
“That’s when I decided to make
the switch to truck sales,” Claire
said.
In 1981, Claire bought a
Peterbilt franchise in Sioux Falls.
He ran the trucking business until
1983, when he and Margaret left
Pipestone, and his sons ran it until
1987. It was the Peterbilt franchise,
Claire said, that set the family on
the path to success.
Although they left Pipestone
nearly three decades ago, Claire
and Margaret still have a special
place in their hearts for the city
where it all began.
“Pipestone was very good to
me,” Claire said. “I raised my family
there and started my business
there.”
“Pipestone has always been
home,” Margaret said. “When we
moved from there I thought it was
the end of the world.”
From Pipestone, the Larsons
moved to Tea, S.D. and then in
socioeconomic backgrounds to
benefit from a Catholic, liberal
arts education; $1 million to the
Seminary for graduate student
scholarships; $500,000 to the Abbey
Guest House; and $250,000 to the
University athletic program.
In a press release at the time of
the donation, Sexton is quoted
as saying “My parents instilled
in me a deep sense of duty and
desire to give back. I’m fond of the
following prayer that reflects their
philosophy of giving: ‘God, let me
be a giver, so that not just my own
but other lives may be enriched.
Greater than material treasures,
may I give faith and hope, my
beliefs and dreams, so that I may
make a difference in the lives of
the people I meet.’”
1990, they moved to Missouri
where they had opened another
Peterbilt franchise in 1987. It was
then that business really took off.
Today, the Larson Group owns nine
Peterbilt franchises, Larson Truck
Sales, and a salvage business, and
has operations in Kentucky, Ohio,
Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and
South Dakota.
The company also owns
an 8,000-acre cattle ranch in
Oklahoma and 4,000 acres of land
in Missouri that they lease out to
farmers.
Their son Glenn is the president
of Larson Group now, and while
Claire still sits on the board of
directors, Glenn and his five other
sons — Gary, Greg, Kevin, Kyle and
Kory — have taken over the bulk of
the business.
Claire considers his boys his
greatest asset. They, and a lot of
hard work, he said, have made the
Larson group what it is. Margaret
said it helped that her husband is
a great thinker and organizer. She’s
also quick to add that God played
a large part in the family’s success.
“Without God this would not
have been possible,” Margaret
said. “When I look back, I see that
God helped us through this all.”
Claire said he’ll never stop
working because when you quit
working you quit accomplishing
— that, and he enjoys it. As far as
the secrets to success, he said be
honest, work hard and try to stay
one step ahead of the game.
“If you want to get ahead, you
have to think ahead,” he said.
The Larsons have been married
53 years and spend their time
in various locations around the
country. They have a home in
Joplin, Mo., the ranch in Oklahoma,
a winter home in Chandler, Ariz.,
and a home near Tea, S.D.
Claire enjoys raising Arabian
horses in his free time, and has
been featured in Arabian Horse
Times, and Margaret enjoys
golfing.
They still have family in
Pipestone and around the area
and visit regularly. Margaret said
Minnesota will always be home to
her.
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younger he worked in the grocery store for a long
time and he delivered papers for a long time and the
customers he had treated him fairly and he tried to do
the same to them.
“I do think that comes from the small town,” he
said. “People were fair to me in town and I’ve tried to
reciprocate back and have said what you take from the
community, you should give something back on top of
it.”
That is something he has done through the years.
“Most of the things we do try to support are kidrelated now because we earned our money from the
school busses,” he said. “So we try to do something
for the kids as opposed to other groups even though
they’d be worthy as well. But we are kind of partial to
kids.”
Hey said he’s lucky to have done a lot of things and
is satisfied with what he has accomplished in business
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