Outstanding Citizen of the Past awardee; farmer, business owner, Justice of the Peace for 35 years which meant he was a member of the Town Board and managed the Summer Recreation Program and the Boy’s Baseball League along with the Pool. Member of the US Air Force Civil Air Command Ground Observation Corp. He also served as a Scout Master of Troop 62 and a Neighborhood Commissioner for Greenwood and Jasper as well as an assistant and then the Chief of the Fire Department and Ambulance Corp for 30 years. He served as the Town Historian and was a life-long member and Past Master of the West Greenwood Grange and the Sentenial Lodge of the Masons as well as a life-long member and Noble Grand of the I.O.O.F Lodge and a life-long member of the Moose Lodge.