BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – One of Bakersfield’s best known business families has lost its patriarch.
Galey’s Marine Supply, which opened in 1938, said goodbye this month to 93-year-old owner Don Galey, son of the founder, Otto Galey.
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Mark Galey, grandson of the founder, said his father died at home peacefully in his sleep.
Galey’s, one of about 5,000 boat suppliers in the United States, is the oldest dealership under one continuous ownership in California, a distinction the company has held for two decades or more. Those are the kind of credentials that give Galey, and his heirs the kind of gravitas to get things done in the industry…