IDEKER - Key Persons
Founder Welton Ideker began his construction company in 1947. Soon after the "Great Missouri River Flood of 1952", Ideker prospered building and repairing levees along the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. In 1958, the company had grown enough to complete its first Interstate Highway project (I-29 in Buchanan County MO). The I-29 project became the first of many interstate sections built by the Welton Ideker Company. Welton's company became known as a "dirt mover" that worked projects from the swampy Missouri River bottoms to the hilly terrain of Northern Missouri.