Photo: Ozark County Times
As of Dec. 3rd, Don Smiley is managing broker for the Century 21 LeMac Ozarks real estate office in Theodosia, having merged his former company, Sierra Ozark, with Mountain Home-based Century 21 LeMac Realty owned by Jewel Pendergrass, and her husband, Ozark County native Mickey Pendergrass.
Century 21 LeMac Realty has expanded into Missouri with Sierra Ozark Corporation of Theodosia becoming a satellite office of the Mountain Home business.
The Theodosia office is now Century 21 LeMac Realty Ozarks, according to Jewel Pendergrass, owner of the Mountain Home business with her husband, Ozark County native Mickey Pendergrass.
The Ozark County Times reports Sierra Ozark owner Don Smiley has operated his real estate business for 44 years. Smiley says he intends to go right on selling Theodosia-area real estate, continuing a career now totaling more than 2,000 pieces of property, including more than 14,000 acres of lake property.
Smiley has turned in the Sierra Ozark Corporation’s real estate license and will become managing broker of the Century 21 LeMac Realty Ozarks office in Theodosia.
Smiley arrived in Ozark County in 1974. The Times report notes his opening of a real estate office in Theodosia wasn’t something you would expect of an MBA graduate whose thesis had focused on land use and demographic data in Ozark County, a place with no railroads, a mediocre highway system and no heavy industry, and, as a result, little chance that it would grow in population.
It wasn’t that Smiley was a stranger to the Ozarks or inexperienced in real estate. The surprising part was that he came to Theodosia after a successful run of executive-level positions in big corporations, beginning with Ross Perot’s Electronic Data Systems, a job that came with an office on Wall Street.
Smiley had grown up in Kansas City and enjoyed summertime visits to his grandparents’ small, hardscrabble farm near the Osage River in St. Claire County. The little farm is now covered by Truman Lake.
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