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Lifetime Achievement Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
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About the Award
This honor is awarded to an individual, couple, or family that demonstrates many years of diligence in cherry farming and related profession. Criteria may include number of years in the business, activity in the industry and community organizations and a giving spirit.
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Awardees
Frank & Bonnie Putney
Michigan
2024
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Frances Otto
Michigan
2023
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Jim Von Holt
Michigan
2022
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Martha Jamieson
Michigan
2020
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Grant Farms
Joe Grant & Jim Grant
Michigan
2019
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Kiessel Farms
Bill & Betty Kiessel
Don & Jan Kiessel
Michigan
2018
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Kay & Fred Vermeersch
Central Lake, MI
2017
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Bob & Effie Anderson
Suttons Bay, MI
2016
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Jack White
Michigan
2015
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Jerome & Mary Ann Kolarik
Gills Pier, MI
2014
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Mary & Whitney Lyon
Island View Orchard, Old Mission, MI
2013
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Clinton Smeltzer
PerClin Orchards, Benzie, MI
2012
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Jack White
Interwater Farms, Williamsburg, MI
2011
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Owen Bahle
Leelanau County, MI
2010
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Rex Dobson
Ruby Ellen Farm, Leelanau County, MI
2009
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Howard & Ann Fouch
Old Mission, MI
2008
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