For decades, customers who shopped at Whannel Hardware in Traer, Iowa, knew they could find helpful home improvement advice, a smile and a laugh from the store’s longtime owner, LeRoy Whannel. Even at the age of 103, the business was still a big part of his life, and he would come help his son Jay Sr., the current owner, as often as he could.
LeRoy Whannel died on May 17. Yet his business and his legacy of helping others continue as his son and his grandson Jay Jr. keep the family business thriving.
