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Rod Bailey passed away on June 15, 2025, at the age of 87. Bailey was the owner of Evergreen Services Corporation and Alder Springs Enterprises. He was also president of the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) in 1985, now known as NALP. Bailey developed his work ethic from an early age, growing up helping out […]
Jim Huston passed away on April 2, 2025, at the age of 75. Huston was the founder and president of J.R. Huston Consulting, Inc., which provided consulting services, software solutions and educational workshops and seminars to the green industry.Ā Huston held positions in finance, aviation supply inventory management and procurement while serving in the U.S. […]
Chuy Medrano passed away on March 14, 2025, at the age of 70. Medrano was the co-founder and owner of CoCal Landscape, based in Denver, Colorado. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, Medrano was the oldest of eight siblings and only finished the third grade before he began working to help support his family. He took whatever […]
Jack Ingels, a former professor at SUNY Cobleskill, passed away earlier this fall. Ingels earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University, followed by a Master of Science from Rutgers, and continued post-graduate studies at Ball State University and College of St. Rose. He started teaching at SUNY Cobleskill at age 24 in 1966 […]
Tom Lied passed away peacefully on Aug. 12, 2024, at the age of 90. Lied was the former CEO and co-owner of Liedās Nursery Company, based in Sussex, Wisconsin, and was a founder of the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA), now known as NALP. Lied spent a lifetime landscaping, starting in 1946. He officially […]
Glenn Jacobsen passed away on Jan. 8, 2024, at the age of 65, after a battle with glioblastoma brain cancer. Jacobsen founded Jacobsen Landscape Design & Construction in 1979 and was president of NALP in 2013. Like many others in the industry, Jacobsen got his start mowing neighborhood lawns. He built his Midland Park, New […]
Barbara Ann Scheibe, former executive director of the Wisconsin Landscape Contractors Association, passed away on Sept. 24, 2023, at the age of 79. Scheibe married her high school sweetheart, Marshall Scheibe, on January 11, 1964. After having two daughters, she earned her LPN degree from Alverno College in 1971, her RN degree in 1983 from […]
Kevin Kehoe, founder of Aspire Software, passed away on Sept. 30, 2022, at the age of 67. He had been battling Stage 4 colorectal cancer since 2014. Kehoe was recently named the 2022 Lifetime Leadership Award recipient for his work mentoring numerous landscape professionals throughout his career. He earned a BA from the State University […]
Dan Stearns, professor emeritus of landscape contracting at Penn State University, passed away on Nov. 6, 2021, at the age of 70. Stearns was an NALP Trailblazer and received NALPās Educator of the Year award in 2019. Stearns earned his bachelorās degree from Penn State and his masterās degree at North Carolina State University. Before […]
Janet Henderson Cole passed away on Sept. 27, 2021, at the age of 62 after a long battle with breast cancer. Cole was a retired Regents Professor Emeritus from Oklahoma State University (OSU). As a valued NALP member, Cole served as the Educator representative on the International Certification Council (ICC) from 2015ā2021 and was a […]
