Fleming, Allen Family Fund (Donor-Advised)

March
 
31
2025
Established in 2001
 
 
Allen Lee "Al" Fleming, 90, was a lifelong Decatur resident.  He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Decatur. 
Additionally, he was a member of the American Legion Post #43 and the Elks Lodge #993 both in Decatur.  He was an honorably discharged member of the United States Army during the Korean War. 
 
Al loved operating anything and everything that was powered whether it was construction equipment, planes or boats.  Al Fleming long remembers the comments made by his former high school principal, "You'll never get beyond digging ditches."  In a way, his principal was correct, as Al's buisness, which he is now retired and his son operates, is the very successful Fleming Excavating, Inc. 
 
Years later, the same principal was known to say, "I predicted all you would do is dig ditches-- I had no idea you would be the president of the company and OWN all the equipment that dug ditches, built bridges, and construct roads."  Al was President and Founder of Fleming Excavating/ Al Fleming, Inc. for 38 years retiring in 1993.  He was also the founder of the Adams County Sand and Gravel Inc. and founder of Fleming Properties, Inc.
 
Hard work paid off for Mr. Fleming and in his free time, he enjoyed floating the Mississippi River and other large bodies of water in his new T-45 Cruiser-Formula Boat.  Al enjoyed boating whenever possible in the Great Lakes and in Florida.  He was especially proud to have completed the journey from the Great Lakes to Florida via the Mississippi River and also via the East Coast. 
 
Al Fleming established this family donor-advised fund with a generous and extraordinary flare... he donated his Formula T41 watercraft.  The actual selling price established this fund with $130,000.  The interest earned on this fund will be distributed by his children: Greg, Nancy (Covell), and Candace (Williamson). 
 
The ACCF respectfully remembers: Allen Lee "Al" Fleming, 90.
(May 17, 1933 to August 25, 2023)