NAPPANEE – The Nappanee Apple Festival named Sam and Lisa Beachy as the 2024 grand marshals.
Sam and Lisa met at Griner Mennonite Church in Middlebury in the fall of 1992 and were married on Nov. 12, 1994, according to a provided news release.
Sam was born and raised in Arthur, Ill., and moved to Locke, and then Nappanee, in 1989, to work with his brother’s company, Locke Stove and Coal.
Lisa was born and raised in Goshen, graduated from Northridge High School and moved to Nappanee after getting married.
Sam and Lisa are the parents of two boys, Ashton and Cohen. Since their marriage, their family has attended Nappanee Missionary Church.
Sam, and his brother, Levi, started Reliance Construction in 2001 and OnSite Excavation & Sitework in 2017. Located in downtown Nappanee, Reliance Construction, a custom home building and renovation firm, emphasizes top-notch workmanship in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. OnSite Excavation & Sitework offers services from excavation and site preparation to lot clearing, basements, crawl spaces, driveways, backfilling and new and existing driveways for residential and light commercial properties in Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph counties.
Sam served on the Apple Festival Committee for a total of 10 years and was the director for five of those years from 2006-11. Beyond the festival committee, Sam served on the Boys & Girls Club board for two years, District 3 councilmen for the Nappanee City Council for six years and Board of Directors member of the Kosciusko County Builders Association for 15 years and served as president for two of those years. Lisa, however, prefers to be behind the scenes. As a mother and a wife, Lisa works from home, raising her two boys while still doing commercial cleaning of job sites with Reliance Construction and some residential houses, volunteering with the Nappanee Apple Festival and with the kid’s activities at school and church.