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founded 1984 · died 13 June 2019
David Ruoff was born and raised in Fort Wayne, went to North Side High School and took a bachelor's degree at Indiana University. He worked in the mortgage industry from 1959, and in 1984 he founded the Dave Ruoff Mortgage Company in Fort Wayne with eighteen employees. He owned the company twenty-nine years and retired in 2012; his son-in-law Mark Music, who had joined as president in 2007, became president, owner and chief executive that year. The company — Ruoff Mortgage today — calls itself Indiana's number-one mortgage lender and had grown to almost 650 employees by 2019. Ruoff died on 13 June 2019, aged eighty-eight, at Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Fort Wayne. Asked his role in founding the company, his memorial records his answer: "I dug the first ditch." Ruoff's firm does not stand in the Business record — it is a find of this audit.
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- Ruoff Mortgage, company history and memorial — the 1984 founding with eighteen employees, the Music succession, the "first ditch" answer; the company's obituary record — the 13 June 2019 death at eighty-eight and the North Side and Indiana University education.