Rick Allen Reisig, who spent decades helping grow his company while contributing to the motorcoach industry across Michigan and the Midwest, is being remembered for his entrepreneurial drive and hands-on leadership style.
The co-founder of Michigan-based charter company Great Lakes Motorcoach, a longtime figure in the bus and motorcoach industry, died Thursday, May 7, in Rockford, Michigan. He was 72.
Reisig helped build Great Lakes Motorcoach into one of the region’s most recognized family-owned transportation companies after co-founding the business in 1984 with his wife, Julie.
He was born April 26, 1954, in Saginaw, Michigan, and married Julie Cupp on Aug. 19, 1983, in Saginaw. Together they built both a family and a business that became a lasting part of the Michigan motorcoach community…