For 52 years, Ashland Implement, Inc. served the Ashland County community in the farm equipment and lawn and garden equipment, parts and service business.

After the business was sold, the owners sought a way to memorialize the corporation’s existence and to thank the community for a half-century of support.

The owners— Tom McNaull, John Crone, Steve Crone and Dan McNaull— set up the “Ashland Implement – Crone & McNaull Fund” with the Ashland County Community Foundation to support the foundation’s Community Grants program.

Each year, distributions from the fund will be pooled with dollars from other ACCF donors and granted to charitable organizations to support special programs and projects.

John and Bonita McNaull and Eldon and Vera Crone, the founders of Ashland Implement, would have been proud.