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Seated the center is Stine CFO Tim Stine presenting a $10,000 Stine Gift Card to Fuller Center for Housing Operations Director Phillip Decker. Those on hand for the presentation include, from left: Jay Stine, Jenny Stine, Jake Stine, Wendy Stine, VP of Marketing David Stine, Garrett Stine, Disaster ReBuilders Family Partner Toni Ratliff, Phillip Decker, Disaster Construction Director Aaron Ratliff, Stine CEO Dennis Stine, Sulphur Councilwoman Melinda Hardy, Sulphur Mayor Michael Danahay and Sulphur Councilwoman Joy Abshire.
SULPHUR, La. Stine Home & Yard recently donated $10,000 in building materials to Fuller Center for Housing Disaster ReBuilders. Disaster ReBuilders has set up an operations base on the property of Celebration Worship Center in Sulphur and plans to remain in the area as long as possible. The organization is also partnering with Olivet Baptist Church for volunteer housing.
J.W. Stine, founder of Stine Home & Yard, dies at 102
J.W. Stine, founder of Stine Home & Yard, dies at 102 By John Bridges | December 23, 2020 at 2:20 PM CST - Updated December 24 at 3:43 PM
LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - The patriarch of a major Southwest Louisiana business has died. J.W. Stine, a WWII veteran who started what would eventually become Stine Home & Yard, passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 102, surrounded by family.
Stine was a B-26 pilot in the Mediterranean theater. He completed forty missions bombing France and Germany during World War Two. In an interview for KPLC’s Hometown Heroes, Stine remembered the first time he saw one of the new German jets whiz by his bomber. It shot down two of his buddies who were on a plane Stine was to have been flying.