NRMCA Notes Death of Martin Ozinga III

NRMCA Producer member Ozinga has announced the death of Martin (Marty) Ozinga III, the company's chairman of the board, on Monday, April 26. Mr. Ozinga was 71 years old. Mr. Ozinga began working for Ozinga at age 15 as a $1-per-hour laborer in the company’s first yard in Evergreen Park, IL. By 18, he was driving a mixer truck while earning a degree in psychology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. He became general manager in 1973 at age 23 and, in 1985, succeeded his father as president of Ozinga.

Mr. Ozinga led the business through a period of sustained growth, including expansion into the downtown Chicago market where Ozinga supplied concrete for high-profile projects such as the construction of the new Comiskey Park (now Guaranteed Rate Field), the renovation of Soldier Field and the production of more than 250,000 cubic yards of concrete for the Dan Ryan Expressway. Through acquisition, Ozinga also expanded the company to much of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.

He served on NRMCA's Strategic Planning and Business Administration committees and also was a donor to the Association's Political Action Committee, CONCRETEPAC. Mr. Ozinga was also named the recipient of the 2016 William B. Allen Award. He was a longtime contributor to the RMC Research & Education Foundation and served on its Board of Trustees.

He was married to his wife Ruth for 40 years until her passing in 2010. Together, they raised their six sons.
In 2012, Mr. Ozinga handed over the operations of the family business to his six sons and their cousin Jeff, representing the fourth generation of Ozinga ownership. He is survived by his wife Melissa, his sister Beverly, his six sons, their wives, and twenty-nine grandchildren.

Click here to read an obituary from the Chicago Sun-Times.

For more information, please contacat Ozinga's Brian Dryfhout at briandryfhout@ozinga.com.