91-year-old man still going strong at work every day
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Updated: 7:30 PM Jul 6, 2009
91-year-old man still going strong at work every day
Most of us hope to retire sometime in our 50's or 60's but we talked to a 91-year-old man who's just fine with the fact that after more than 70 years on the job, he's still going strong.
Posted: 6:35 PM Jul 6, 2009
Reporter: Amelia Cerling
Email Address: Amelia.Cerling@weau.com
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What do you imagine for yourself in retirement? Maybe a beach house in Florida or a cottage in the mountains?

For one 91-year-old man in Loyal, a love for the company he built has kept him going long after many his age has retired.

Clyde Grambsch's walking has slowed over the years -- but he definitely has the spirit of a much younger man.

Clyde started his camper business more than 50 years ago when he couldn't find one he liked enough to buy -- so he figured he'd just build one.

He says, “I talked to my dad and I said I’m gonna build a camper because I want folding steps and a folding screen doo r-- we can do it, I know we can!”

When he took the finished camper out to the woods -- he came home with positive reviews. He remembers, “Course when we went camping with it everybody was oo--where did you get that, they all admired it.”

While the E-Z Kamper Company folded in the 1970's his current company called Camper & Recreation Inc. which started in 1973 -- is still going strong.

He says, “I'm in a position where I can come to work or I don't have to but I want to because I want to open that mail and see what’s going on.”

While he's passed the presidential reigns to his son Bob -- Clyde's work ethic and spirit have carried on. Bob Grambsch says, “I think I credit him with helping me learn to think for myself, he taught us values -- hard work, belief in God, and just a strong character.”

Clyde told us through his 70 plus years of work, what it all comes down to is the people you meet in life -- the exact same reason why he loved camping to begin with.

He says, “People don't go camping because they can't afford to go any other way -- they go camping because that's the way they want to go.”

Clyde's first camper that he built in 1956 is now on display in the Vehicle/Mobile Home Hall of Fame Museum in Elkhart, Indiana.


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