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.
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 some of th…
