Edward B. Dunlap, founder and chairman of NRCA member CentiMark Corp., Canonsburg, Pa., passed away July 23.
Dunlap served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1956-60 and in 1968 started a janitorial supply business in the basement of his home. With $1,000 and one associate, he then started a business that would become CentiMark, a billion-dollar corporation and the largest commercial roofing and flooring company in North America with 95 offices and 3,500 associates.
The Dunlaps own more than 75 businesses, including LeMont Restaurant in Mt. Washington, Pa., and National Polymers Inc., the U.S.’ leading manufacturer of private label epoxy floor coatings, concrete repair, epoxy mortars and roof coatings.
Dunlap; his wife, Anna; the Dunlap family; CentiMark; and LeMont Restaurant are well-known for their philanthropy in the Pittsburgh community and throughout North America. The Dunlap family is proud of its legacy donations to the Dunlap Family Outpatient Center at St. Clair Health, Pittsburgh, and the Dunlap Family Athletic & Recreation Center, St. Vincent’s College, Latrobe, Pa.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Coast Guard Foundation, Attn: Edward B. Dunlap Memorial Fund, 394 Taugwonk Road, Storington, CT 06378; Make-A-Wish® Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia, Attn: Edward B. Dunlap Memorial Fund, The Gulf Tower, 707 Grant St., 37th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15219; and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Attn: Edward B. Dunlap Memorial Fund, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
