Moveable house builder retiring, closing development business, neighboring lumber store

Goertzen Homes and Pioneer Supply Co., both in Inman, are closing as owners Will and Jennie Koehn are planning to retire.

INMAN – Nevertheless their product sales typically happened by way of word-o-mouth, Will Koehn estimates more than 300 Goertzen Homes are distribute commonly all over Kansas currently.

The stick-developed, mainly ranch-design houses ended up constructed in excess of the earlier 30-additionally several years on a five-acre lot on the edge of Inman and then trucked by household movers to person property web pages.

Pioneer Source, a regional lumberyard and developing provide retail store on the edge of the Inman city limitations, grew out of the very same spouse and children-owned dwelling development small business, filling its source requirements though also serving local community citizens and other builders for approximately as prolonged.

Koehn joined the firm when he was 16 and acquired it when he was 37. Now owning arrived at age 68, it is time for him to retire, so the two companies will shortly shut.