A major player in the manufactured housing industry in Elkhart County, Indiana since 1964 passed away June 25. Jack Tuff, founder of Tops Mobile Home Centers and several manufactured housing communities, and an early supporter of what became the RV/MH Hall of Fame, began his MH career in Fort Knox, Kentucky while stationed in the Army in the late 1950s. Al Hesselbart, historian at the RV/MH Hall of Fame, says, “Jack was a giant in the manufactured housing industry in Elkhart County and was one of two or three people who were personally responsible for the city of Elkhart donating land and funds for the first Hall of Fame on Benham Avenue,” according to elkharttruth.com. Jerry Pickrell, who was active in the Indiana Manufactured Housing Association (IMHA), says Tuff used his own money to help sustain the Hall of Fame in the early ’90s. MHProNews extends its deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Jack Tuff. ##
