People in Klamath Falls received word at the end of last week of the passing of key community matriarch Nancy Wendt.
She, along with her husband Richard “Dick” Wendt, bought a millworking business at auction in 1960, and turned it into one of the leading employers in the Klamath Basin — Jeld-Wen.
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