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Business Traditions Thursday, January 31, 2019
An Echo Journal & Brainerd Dispatch Publication
PEQUOT LAKES
40 YEARS LATER CAMPBELL FAMILY IS STILL MOVING HOUSES By Nancy Vogt Echo Journal Editor
Jerry Jr. and Mike bought the company from their parents. In 2005, Jerry Jr. and hen Jerry Campbell Linda became the sole owners. “I like helping people,” Jerry Jr. said Sr. co-founded C-B of continuing with the business. “I like Movers in 1978, little did he know dealing with customers and trying to the family business provide a good service for them.” Jerry Sr. was working at the former would last more than 40 years with three generations of Durkee Manufacturing in Pine River when the opportunity to change careers Campbells working there. Today, Campbell and his wife, Doris, arose. Doris’s sister had bought a cabin are retired, though he still does errands that needed to be moved from Crow Wing for the company that relocates buildings State Park. “Dad pretty much did what he could do and lifts structures for new foundations to help her,” Jerry Jr. said. “He borrowed and basements. Their oldest son, Jerry Campbell Jr., and his wife, Linda, own some jacks from a guy, loaded it on a the family business based off County trailer and moved it.” That “guy” asked Jerry Sr. to buy his Road 1 west of Pequot Lakes. Their son, Waylon, and nephew, Dustin - the third business. After some consideration, he generation of Campbells - also work for did just that, saying he always wanted to be his own boss. He partnered with Glen C-B Movers. “Dad pretty much always had it in Bjoraker, and thus C-B Movers got its mind - it was Dad’s dream for us to take name using the first letters of both men’s it over and run it,” Campbell Jr. said of last names. himself and his brothers. The three brothers – Jerry Jr., Mike and Basil – all worked for their dad. In 1990, C-B MOVERS: Page 8
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MAIN: C-B Movers includes current co-owners Jerry Campbell Jr. (left) and his wife, Linda (right); co-founder Jerry Campbell Sr. and Waylon Campbell, son of Jerry Jr. and Linda. TOP: Jerry Campbell Sr. stands next to a house and the first truck he used to move buildings in the early 1980s. BOTTOM: C-B Movers moved this home from Verndale Custom Builders in mid-January 2019.
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