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It seemed like the start of a typical work week to Ken Harader one Monday in 1974 when he arrived at A.C. Mattress Company.

Harader met with his boss and the company founder, Bill Thomas, to discuss the day’s work plans.

Thomas then got up from his desk chair, walked to the front door of the office, collapsed, and lost consciousness.

He died at the local hospital later that day.

“I called the ambulance, and they came down and run him up to the hospital,” Harader said Thursday. “That was a shock.”

Harader already was a long-time employee and Thomas’ right-hand man when his boss collapsed that day.

He began work at the mattress company in the summer of 1958 when he was 12 years old. That summer he learned to work at a sewing machine, stitching together mattress covers.

He made 35 cents for sewing up each mattress cover.

“I’d do two a day and want to quit; that was very little money but seemed like plenty to me then,” he said.

In 1958, Harader didn’t dream that he would stay with the mattress company for 50 years and become its owner.

“I don’t know if this is what I wanted to do, but that’s what happened,” he said. “I probably spent a few years working at other jobs, but I always came back here.”

The business remained basically the same manufacturing operation from 1923 when Thomas opened it until his death in February 1974. But it changed starting about a year later, when Harader bought the business.

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