Remembering Michael Schira Michael C. Schira, president of Marleau Hercules, a Toledo-based, family-owned fence company, died July 22. He was 69. Michael and his brother, Jim, were business partners. The beginning of the business was when their great-grandfather, Dolphus J. Marleau, started a hardware store in 1889, then it transformed into a fencing business over time. Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Flynn, whom he married September 12, 1975; son, Bertrand Schira; sisters, Ann Mackley and Cathy Siebenaler; brothers Bill, Bob, Joe and Jim Schira, and a granddaughter. The family suggests tributes to Central Catholic High School; the Double ARC Center, or a worthy recipient of the donor’s choice.
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MEMORIAM 2020 - 2021 Dale Long
| Columbia, KY February 1, 1963 - November 11, 2020 Stephens Pipe & Steel (VP)
Joe Brown
Olaf Grobe | Rockaway, NJ 1963 - December 18, 2020 ASO Safety (Sales Team)
Nancy Peters | Riverside, CT August 25, 1952 - July 13, 2021 Wife of Steve Peters, Southwestern Wire
Mark Tobler | Waterford, NY September 13, 1960 - January 25, 2021 B&H Wholesale Fence
Michael Schira | Toledo, OH February 4, 1952-July 22, 2021 Marleau Hercules Fence
Eddie Howell
| Mesa, AZ Sept. 8, 1926 - Feb. 1, 2021 Past President IFIA 1986 -1987
Nathan Levine
Tina Michelle Nicholson | Birmingham, AL October 15, 1967 - March 5, 2021 Eagle Fence Distributing (Founding team member, Eagle Alabama location)
Mike Hale | Livingston, TX August 21, 1955 - September 4, 2021 Little Beaver (Sales Manager)
Billy Roy Haynes
| Livingston, TX October 2, 1926 - March 13, 2021 Little Beaver (owner)
Luis Martinez
| Avenel, NJ February 4, 1935 - April 1, 2021 Founder Esquire Fence
| Chattanooga, TN November 20, 1962 - May 9, 2021 Brown Fence Co. (owner)
| Westborough, MA 1927 - August 3, 2021 Past president of AFA
Tim Miller
| Sacramento, CA October 27, 1952 - September 10, 2021 Security Contractor Services
Gordon Clark | Dover, NH November 4, 1952 - September 28, 2021 GC/AAA Fences Inc, Vinyl Fences Inc., and Granite State Gate Systems Inc.
Michael Novik | Detroit, MI May 8, 1943 - April 12, 2021 Contractors Fence Service (owner) This annual memoriam is sponsored by Dynamic Tube & Pipe Company in tribute to friends and family lost during the past 2020 and 2021 years.
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