The Kerr family spends their weekends during the summer pulling. Jennifer, the youngest daughter, is a bakery manager for Publix, and while her schedule doesn’t permit her to have many weekends, she always comes along when she can to root for “Daddy’s Money” and her sister. Her day job is a teacher at Zion Christian Academy. In 2011 Mary Ann, Eddie’s eldest daughter took over the driving duties of competition. With improvements, larger engines, different mixes of fuel, power plants, time and money the Kerrs kept building, buying and improving their tractors. Eddie’s daughters aptly named the restored tractor with the caterpillar engine, “Spendin’ Daddy’s Money.” It took an entire year, but they got to pull it in Lexington, Ala. “It would be a good place to start to build what you want to compete with,” he told them. In time they decided they wanted to go back to pulling on a larger level, and so Glenda’s brother, Jim Campbell, the owner of a tractor salvage yard, called and told the couple he had an Oliver Tractor. Even Glenda and the girls drove the tractor in competition. In 2003 he found an Oliver 77 antique tractor in Florida, which he and Glenda not only restored, but they also competed with that tractor in events throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama and Mississippi. His wife, Glenda, served beside him as the secretary and treasurer for the Tennessee Alabama Pullers Association (NTPA member state) for six years while he served as president for two three-year teams. He became licensed by the National Tractor Puller’s Association as a Track and Tech Official. Children, mortgage, and life itself called him away from the driver’s seat, so he had to find another way to stay in the sport that he loved so much. He even helped to rebuild and campaigned a Super 570 Cockshutt Tractor Light Super Stock from 1985-1989.ġ990 called him to really look to his family and their needs. He worked around tractors for years from the Rattle and Snap Farms to Allis Chalmers and the International dealership in Spring Hill. He also found the love of his life, Glenda, at a pull and they were married in 1980. But it wasn’t just the tractors Eddie found at the meets.
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