Obituary

Keith Collett worked for nearly four decades with Goodyear Engineer Products and its successor company, Veyance Technologies, making his mark in the industrial hose business.

Daniel French was part of family-owned French Oil Mill Machinery Co. for 52 years, and was chairman when he died on Oct. 13.

Good storytellers are rare. But Mike McNulty was one of them. We tell his story, and we do that with heavy hearts as we say goodbye to our friend. Mike died Sept. 18 at the age of 82, after a short battle with cancer.

Tom Conway, president of the United Steelworkers union that represents thousands of workers in the tire industry, has died at 71.

Tire industry veteran Gary Brooks Harris died in late August. He was 68.

Jim Jennett, who helped Rep International establish its U.S. foothold, dies after a long illness.

Michael R. Beck III, president of Polymer Valley Chemicals Inc., died Dec. 24 at University Hospitals' Seidman Cancer Center in Cleveland after battling an extended illness.

Lee Carver spent more than four decades in the rubber industry, helping found silicone molder Sil-Pro in 1999. He was Executive of the Year in 2005.

Marvin Bozarth, a retread industry mainstay for the better part of six decades, died Sept. 1 at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mexico. He was 85.