An Almost 90-Year Friendship: The Lackender-Stutsman Story
In between Hills and Sharon Center, a quick eight-minute drive from Eldon C. Stutsman, Inc., nestled on a gravel road sits two farmsteads that have been next-door neighbors for almost 90 years. The first farmstead has been in semi-retired farmer and long-time Stutsman customer, Doug Lackender’s family since 1898 when his great grandfather, Abraham Lackender, bought it. The other farmstead belonged to Eldon Stutsman and remains in the Stutsman family today.
“Our histories are intertwined,” Doug Lackender said.