Ken Garff
Utah businessman and founder of Ken Garff Automotive Group (1906-1997)
Kendall Day Garff (July 18, 1906 – March 14, 1997) was an American businessman who owned several automobile dealerships along the Wasatch Front in Utah.
Biography
Garff was born in Draper, Utah. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), for which he served as a missionary in Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1926 to 1928. He graduated from the University of Utah with a BA in Social and Behavioral Science in 1932.
Garff married Marjorie Heiner in 1932 in the Salt Lake Temple and they had three children. Marjorie was ill for many years and died in 1976. Garff remarried Betty June Morgan in 1977.
Before selling cars, Garff worked as a Shell service station attendant in Salt Lake City, Utah. After an explosion, the station closed for reconstruction and Garff began selling used cars to support himself and founded his company in 1932. He would buy cars in Chicago and bring them back to sell in Salt Lake.
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