Business Management

Longtime Homewood icon Art Welsh dies.
Mr. Welsh may best be known for serving ice cream to the community for 40 years as the owner and operator of the Homewood Dairy Queen, 1700 Ridge Road. He and his late wife, LaVerne, raised six children in a house they lived in since 1959 that was a block away from the ice cream shop.

Mr. Welsh”s contributions to the community, however, go well beyond handing out cones, shakes and sundaes.

Among his many accomplishments was being a founding member, active parent, coach, umpire and longest-running business sponsor of multiple teams in the Homewood Baseball League. The league recognized his enormous contributions by naming one of the playing fields ‘Welsh Field’ in 1991.

Mr. Welsh also was a longtime member of the Homewood Rotary Club and a former director of the Homewood Chamber of Commerce.