Family-owned company passes golden milestone

Interstate Batteries now run by third generation distributor

  • This photo, taken in 2003, shows Interstate Battery owners, from left: Paula Danhauer, the late Dee Koberstein, and Lee Danhauer, standing on a Highway 14 site where construction was about to begin on a new location. Dee and her husband, Bob, moved from Florida to Aurora in 1973 to establish a business which marked its 50th anniversary last year. Zack Danhauer is now the franchise distributor, representing the third generation of family ownership.
    This photo, taken in 2003, shows Interstate Battery owners, from left: Paula Danhauer, the late Dee Koberstein, and Lee Danhauer, standing on a Highway 14 site where construction was about to begin on a new location. Dee and her husband, Bob, moved from Florida to Aurora in 1973 to establish a business which marked its 50th anniversary last year. Zack Danhauer is now the franchise distributor, representing the third generation of family ownership.
    It began with one truck and a tiny shack just off 1st and M streets, plus the desire to work hard and listen to a customer’s needs.That formula is still working 50 years later for Interstate Battery System in Aurora, a family-owned business now under the watchful eye of third-generation owner/distributor Zack Danhauer. His grandfather Bob Koberstein, a former NASA engineer who worked on s...

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