David’s passing occurred on 01.07.04 near his South residence near Houston, TX where his body was cremated. A few weeks later, Haley, David’s daughter hosted Dave’s celebration of life near his north residence in the town of Princeton, New Jersey which had about 100 people in atttendance.
As the event started around 11am, it was a nice sunny day with a temperature of around 50 degrees. As you walked into The Ivy Inn, which was one of Dave’s favorite stops, you were greeted by his daughter Haley at the front door.
As you entered the room, you noticed towards the front of the stage is where the close family of Dave’s gathered and toward the back of the room gathered businessman along all sorts of different industries whom Dave met through his favorite business he owned called Follow Your Process.
David Andres had an incredible sense of deep personal connection with anyone not only in the liquid waste industry but also across various other industrial businesses. Mr Andres had extensive experience hands on from the ground up to the executive management level in any size portable toilet restroom company – prefering to work with companies with over 5,000 + rental units in their fleet.
David had been called upon as a private consultant by large sized companies to train sales staff, arrange call center inbound, logistics, dispatch for him to review these type of companies for their efficiency in infastructure.
On the wall at the celebration of life, you saw a TV which played a slideshow of pictures. David was able to utilize this skillset and travel around the world helping these large companies and take amazing pictures from all over the world.
Some of the companies noted at this event were:
Chris Ricchetti of Chicago, IL
Kasdyn Click of A1 Portable Toilet Litchfield, CT
Sandy Rogers of United Rentals Wappinger Falls, NY
Steve Brodeur of The Throne Depot Boston, MA
Listed below are companies David Andres had a title at:
Mr. John, EarthCare, Stadium Associates, Preferred Solutions O2, LLC, TrapZap, A Royal Flush INC, Christian Tobacco LLC, Delea Sod Farms INC, Bionic Filter Solutions INC, Grant Environmental Technologies, Inc, Grease Guard INC, PortaClear, ClearBrook, CubaLibre, MtM, Foodservice Wastewater, Sanitrax International, Russell Reid, PDS2 LLC, United Rentals & Tully Environmental, Inc.
At the event there was a large glass vase on a table. It was filled with business cards from all of David’s connections he made throughout his career. It contained over 20,000 business cards in it ranging from town officials, executives of companies, sales managers, etc.
Written by: Anonymous
Submitted: 01.28.24
As we work so hard in our individual career to acquire this so called thing of “success”, sometimes you are reminded when your time comes that you come into this world without much and you can’t take much out of this world. Raise a glass to Dave for his enthusiam and hard working personality. You helped many, the world needs more people like you.
As we go back to this week on Monday, lets not work too hard. Lets be lazy and take it easy to get home to our loved ones. Because. lets be honest… all it is…
Another day, Another Dollar
