Tom Parnell grew up on a farm in Tennessee where he figured out his do the job ethic. 1 day he watched a surveyor operating on the land and decided that was what he would like to do. He later on graduated with a degree in civil engineering and surveying from the University of Tennessee. For many years he worked with paving firms in Tennessee, but he and his wife, Annette, required to increase their family members in a scaled-down hometown.
That led to Tom and Annette transferring to Cambridge in 1967, when Tom labored in construction for Hall and Barber, an asphalt construction business. It was not extensive ahead of he made the decision to start off his very own engineering and surveying firm and later on added basic design. And that was the commencing of Parnell & Associates, Inc.
Receiving a tiny company started out usually takes time and Tom wished to be specified that his household was supplied for effectively. So when he was setting up his possess business, he served as a community county engineer. Penny, his daughter, recalls, “Dad would do the job all working day at the county workplace, then at 3:30 get started working at Parnell & Associates. Mother labored complete time in the place of work and built it operate.”
Tom and Annette have labored alongside one another for 50 years in the spouse and children-owned organization,even though preserving their relatives and neighborhood as an vital part of their life. Nowadays the company carries on to prosper owing to the devotion and supervision of Tom and Annette’s little ones, Larry and Penny Parnell.
Penny joined the enterprise 28 a long time ago right after attending college or university at Ohio Northern and Muskingum College. She labored with her mom in the business the place they did bookwork, accounting, and dealt with consumer concerns. Larry has been with the enterprise for seven several years and right now handles estimates and paving orders. Tom has an office environment at dwelling where he keeps an eye on the company he started.
Parnell & Associates handles all forms of commercial, household, industrial, and governmental paving desires across southeastern Ohio.
Quite a few of the workers have been with the firm for several years.
Kenny West labored with the organization for 40 decades and served as a foreman just before he retired. But he skipped the organization so substantially he came again and questioned if he could travel the truck. And Roy “Hoss” Hickman Jr. has been with the organization for 35 decades.
“We are deeply honored to be celebrating 50 decades of services inside of Cambridge and throughout the region,” Tom Parnell claimed. “The local group has supported us every single step of the way, and we come to feel blessed to be capable to give back again and to go on escalating alongside this excellent local community.”
This write-up originally appeared on The Every day Jeffersonian: Tom Parnell paved the way for family small business