Board of Directors

President

Caryl Unger

• Second generation resident
• 13 years experience on the Board of Directors: two years as President
• Dedicated to making sound decisions for the betterment of all residents and the community of Palm Resaca Mobile Home Park

1st Vice President

Jon Moulton

My wife Pat and I came to Palm Resaca with our RV for several years to be with our good friend Bob Odegaard from our mutual hometown of Rush City, Minnesota.  Later we rented a mobile home in the park for one year before purchasing that mobile. I have been on the PRMHP board since 2019.

My occupations are dairy farmer  for 38 years and CPA for 46 years. Our youngest son has taken over the dairy farm and our youngest daughter has taken over the CPA office but both still bear my name and want my services!

2nd Vice President

Dennis Pepe

I was born in September 1946 in Grand Blanc Michigan and lived in Illinois from 1951 until the present.  I graduated high school in 1966 and then did a four year stint in the US Navy.  After the Navy I spent about 37 years working in a manufacturing factory setting.  Initially as an Automatic Assembly Line Maintainer in a Continental Can Company can making factory for ten years.  I was operating and repairing the can fabricating machinery for an entire beverage can production line sending 12 oz. beverage cans through a hole in the wall to the Coca-Cola bottling plant on the other side until that plant was closed in 1980.  I then moved on to the Electromotive Division of General Motors, testing locomotive engines for a couple years.  After being laid off from Electromotive I found employment as a Maintenance Department Supervisor and eventually Superintendent of a fifty man maintenance crew at a Chicago floor tile manufacturer for the next twenty years and finally finished my work life as a maintenance foreman at another factory before retiring in 2008.

Since High School, I’ve done all my own vehicle repairs and maintenance until the last seven or eight years when cars became so computer dependent that the “Shadetree Mechanic” in me was forced to admit I couldn’t do it anymore, plus advancing age told me to let the pro’s handle it.

I have always been interested in electronics and home computers and have built both the computer I currently use and Patti’s computer, brand new, from components purchased at an electronics supply store for about half the cost of buying one at a big box store.  It’s the cheapskate in me I guess, plus it’s fun

I rode motorcycles in my twenty’s and early thirty’s until shortly after the birth of my kids and the emotional and financial responsibilities of raising a family and providing for them forced me to give up motorcycling.  After becoming an empty nester in my early fifties and then losing my first wife following a lengthy illness I’ve gotten back into riding again and have had several bikes since, culminating in the 2011 Harley Trike (my version of a golf cart) I’m currently riding.

The initial home my first wife and I bought was a condominium that we had for about twelve years, the last eight of which I was a member of the board of directors for our condo association.

Following a visit to Palm Resaca in about February of 2017 Patti and I really loved this place and decided to sell our home up north in Oak Forest, Illinois, keep our summer get away trailer in Seneca, Illinois and become Winter Texans here at Palm Resaca.  We bought and moved into #49 in April of 2019 and we’re now putting the finishing touches on a brand new trailer on lot #51.  We’re generally up north from mid April through mid October and down here the rest of the year.

Patti and I both have kids and grandkids in northern Illinois so we won’t giving up our northern summers anytime soon but are looking forward to many more fun winters down here.

Director

Barry MacDonald

More info coming soon!

Director

Terry Roberts

I am currently an administrator with First Baptist School , where I have served for 17 years.   I have had many opportunities to serve on governing boards and I trust my experiences will benefit the park.  My wife Rosemary and I are going into our fifth season at Palm Resaca Park.  We are thankful for the park and want to be involved in many activities.  Working full-time limits our opportunities to get involved.  Serving on the board of directors is our way to “give back” to the park. Working together, we look forward to many great years.

Director

Blake Willard

Blake is a retired Captain with the Calgary Fire Department who served 32 years.  Plus for over 25 years (and still going) an entrepreneur…  with being the Owner/Operator of Quick Fire Fireplaces, owing many rental properties and in 2022 becoming the new Owners of Motel Tipton, a 13-room boutique motel in Tipton Iowa. 

In the fall of 2024, Blake along with his wife Shelley will be into their thirteenth season as Winter Texans at Palm Resaca Park.  Together, they love our beautiful park and continue to be involved in many activities throughout the winter season. They are proud to make a positive contribution to enhance the Park while in turn, preserving the vision of the Founders.   Together, they look forward to many great years with our Palm Resaca Family!  Since 2016, Blake has served on the Board of Directors and his term will continue until 2026.  Has been on these committees  Property, Nominations and  Finance , Welcome committee  ,Chairman of the Long-Term Planning, He has also been the Board Liaison with the Internet and Rec Club committees. 

He is a Father of three adult children, a Grandfather to eight Grandchildren plus a Great Grandfather to eight Great Grandkids, with one more on the way .  Blake and Shelley are currently in the “traveling” mode of life and have travelled to all 50 US States (Alaska is on the sights for the summer of 2024), plus various countries with more on their bucket list!

Director

Robyn Zettler

More info coming soon!