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A big part of why Valerie McGinnis decided to keep her husband’s company going following his death were the many loyal employees. “I couldn’t just walk away from almost 20 families,” she says.
When Valerie McGinnis’ husband Mark unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January 2020 at age 60, she wasn’t sure what would happen to $15 Sewer & Drain, the business the well-known plumber and drain cleaner had started in 1986 in San Jose, California.
That all changed when...
