Shelby Railroad Keeps on Track for Stuttering

Kirk and John Tarver and their Memphis-based Shelby Railroad Services Inc. raised a record $6,000 to help those who stutter.  Jane Fraser was in attendance to receive this outstanding gift along with Pat Hamm, the Office Manager of the Stuttering Foundation.

The annual Tin-Cup Tournament took place on Oct. 8 at Wedgewood Golf Club in Olive Branch, Miss.

This is the seventh year the company teamed up with the Stuttering Foundation to honor Ruth McGuiness Tarver, the late mother of company president and founder John Tarver. Ruth stuttered from the time she was a young child.

“She was a great lady,” Shelby Railroad Vice President Kirk Tarver said of his grandmother. “It didn’t matter to us, but it embarrassed her. Back in the ‘30s, there wasn’t any help.”

“We are so grateful for the dedicated friendship and support the Tarvers and Shelby Railroad have shown us,” Fraser said during the event.