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Article: BELOIT HAS LOST A COMMUNITY GEM KEN HENDRICKS 1941-2007 THE POPULAR BILLIONAIRE DIED AFTER FALLING THROUGH AN UNCOMPLETED ADDITION TO HIS HOME.(FRONT)(Obituary)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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Byline: BARRY ADAMS badams@madison.com 608-252-6148
Ken Hendricks favored the homemade soup at Skip's Friendly Village and the ribs and the chicken and dumpling soup at the Afton Pub.
He could have eaten anywhere, but he preferred the two rural taverns near his town of Rock home, north of Beloit and just west of the Rock River.
"If you didn't know who he was, you would never know who he was," said Diane Liptow, co-owner of the Afton Pub. "He was a very down-to-earth man."
Hendricks, 66, the founder of ABC Supply Co., in Beloit, died early Friday at a Rockford, Ill., hospital after falling through an uncompleted addition to his home.
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