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Texas family pays $24,000 to visit Frankenmuth

Contributed by Gary Scharrer

  Stanley and Martie Jobe and their son, Tag, and daughter-in-law, Bailee, spent two nights in Frankenmuth. The family was impressed by the hospitality and the family business legacies.

The Jobe family were high bidders ($24,000) for a "Frankenmuth Trip” in an auction to benefit college scholarships awarded by the Associated General Contractors of Texas.

  “I'm amazed at the commerce that this Zehnder family has been able to create in Frankenmuth... and to be able to hold a family business together for four generations is nothing short of a miracle,” Stanley Jobe said. "Besides it being a beautiful place in a very quaint, small town - just to see this family build a legacy, which is what I want to try to create in our company. It’s just hard to hold (family) businesses together.”

  The Jobes employ more than 700 people in a company that provides concrete, asphalt, construction aggregates, precast concrete products, concrete girders, etc. The Jobes also have a Texas ranching business and a hospitality company in the Florida Keys.

  “The beauty was striking when we first came into the town,” Martie Jobe said. “The business part of it is fascinating, because business is our football. And so we always are fascinated by the business and commerce of a community, and that's what we were observing while we were here, primarily.”

“The Frankenmuth hospitality was foremost in my mind, because we own a hospitality business,” she said. “It’s customer service and guest experience, and so definitely that was part of the experience that I paid the most attention to.”

  The family appreciated the personal greetings from Bronner’s CHRISTmas Wonderland, the Bavarian Inn Lodge, The Fortress Golf Course, the Bavarian Inn Restaurant and particularly the treatment from Al Zehnder at Zehnder’s of Frankenmuth. ........ 

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