Longtime furniture sales rep Ralph Deutsch dies
Won several industry honors
Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, November 20, 2008
ASHEBORO, N.C. — Ralph Louis Deutsch Jr., a longtime sales representative who won several industry honors, has died. He was 78.  Ralph Deutsch |
Deutsch, a graduate of North Carolina State University's School of Furniture Engineering, started in the industry at his family's furniture manufacturing company in Ramseur, N.C. After the business was sold, he formed a sales agency, Ramseur Furniture Distributors. He represented a number of manufacturers, most recently Elliot's Designs and Mantua Mfg.
He was honored as Outstanding Manufacturing Sales Representative at the Tupelo Furniture Market in 2001, was included in Furniture/Today's Who's Who in the Furniture Industry in 2004 and was named a Dean of IHFRA by the International Home Furnishings Representatives Assn. in 2007.
He was a member of the Virginia-Carolinas Home Furnishings Assn. for more than 30 years and served on its board for 10 years.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, a stepdaughter, four grandchildren and a brother. His son Michael Deutsch is an industry sales representative.
Memorial donations may be made to the N.C. State Engineering Foundation, Ralph L. Deutsch Jr. Scholarship, Campus Box 7901, Raleigh, N.C., 27695-2701.
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