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April 2013
family also thrived from their running of a
respected feed and grain business. Titus,
with the loving mentorship of his grand-
father, grew-up learning all about the trad-
ing of commodities, but he also became
particularly adept in mechanics. Following
high school, he went on to get certified in
diesel engine repair and started working in
the transportation side of his family’s feed
& grain enterprise. Piper says his business
was launched with only a few trucks operat-
ing from a base near the family farm. Titus
grew that operation one truck at a time. She
says while dump work was always the bread-
and-butter of his business, by the late 80’s,
Titus acquired a small company called Page
ETC, Inc. which then gave him capability to
service other markets such as that involving
the hauling of hazardous wastes. Along the
way, he married and with his wife, Debbie,
went on to raise two sons, Dan and Bill, as
well as Piper. While his wife occasionally
helped with needs at the business, more of-
ten than not, she could be found working
for the local school district as a bus driver.
As for Keith, having been raised on a farm,
he was no stranger to hard work. He dedi-
cated himself to tending to duties and saw
to it that company staff were being equally
diligent in fulfilling customer expectations.
