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Emerald Excavating Flourishes Over Decades With Hard Work, Irish Luck By Jay Adams
took ownership of this machine without even knowing how to turn it on.” James also had married Ingeborg (Inge) Kelleher, Inge who was a dental assispresident of Emerald tant. Ironically, the dentist Excavating, Plymouth, she worked for had started Mass., went from drilling another business, building teeth as a dental assistant to homes on the side. drilling foundations when “Through my mother, my she founded the company father was hired by this denwith her husband James in tist-turned-builder to backfill 1973. a foundation with his new Inge’s involvement developed over time. Her role A Hitatchi 750 loading fill at a current job in which machine. In a performance evolved through necessity as Emerald is performing the site work for a new region- that would have turned anyone else away from the sitethe young immigrant couple al distribution center for Sysco Boston in Plympton. work industry entirely, my struggled to survive during difficult times. Inge was born in Straubing, Germany and father captained his newly acquired International 500 had moved to Zephyrhills, Fla., at age 15 without knowing straight into the foundation on its maiden voyage,” said Rory. “Fortunately for my father, the dentist arrived at the one world of English. James had emigrated from Ennistymon, Ireland. Raised site to finish the backfill and cracked the other side of the on a farm, he settled in a home in Cedarville, Mass., starting foundation. “The dentist reasoned that he needed to replace the founhis own small hobby farm, which he still maintains. The couple — with the help of hard-working employees, dation now and, compassionately, opted not to take his grit and more than a little luck — have expanded Emerald pound of flesh from my father,” said Rory. “Somehow, this from a two-person operation into a major site work compa- dentist saw something of value in my father’s skills as a builder, or possibly it was my mother’s skills as a dental ny with a stellar reputation. Inge is trained in construction technology, concrete con- assistant that were valued, and he employed my father for the struction and accounting. She also is a licensed real estate next two years.” After two years of building houses, the dentist returned to broker and an active leader in her community. Emerald Excavating was certified as a Woman Owned buildings bridges of another kind. “He offered my mother a mortgage so that she could buy Business Enterprise because of Inge’s ownership and leaderhis equipment so my father could continue in site-work. My ship. mother jumped at the opportunity and made my parents the proud owners of a six-wheel dump, a nine-ton tag trailer, a Dental Foundations More than 38 years ago, James Kelleher left a career in John Deere 410 backhoe and an Allis Chalmers HD-6 ministry and moved to Kingston, Mass., where his brother dozer,” said Rory. Struggling and juggling two careers, the couple kept lived. To fill time, while figuring out what to do next, he going. helped his brother do some landscaping. “They still recount the celebration that followed the first “While raking a lawn one day, my father saw an International 500 shovel dozer parked in a neighboring yard. week that they grossed over $1,000,” added Rory. “Slowly It belonged to a police officer who had purchased it with the the business grew to the point that my mother left her post as intention of performing the site-work for his own home,” a dental assistant and devoted her attention to the business. said Rory Kelleher, now business manager of Emerald. “His My mother juggled the business with raising two children.” plan hadn’t worked out and he was all too happy to transfer see EMErAlD page 4 the machine and its payments over to my father. My father CEG CORRESPONDENT