Ronald Nick Endress has been a resident of Battle Ground for as long as he’s been alive.
“I just couldn’t leave Battle Ground. I just liked it,” Endress said.
Endress has lived his whole life in the town, having attended the high school when he was younger and following along with the football team all the while.
In academics, he had his fair share of trouble makers, but some of the lessons he learned then stick with him now.
“They didn’t put up with no foolishness,” Endress said. “One of the guys that was watching the kids caught one of the so-called smart guys and he said ‘there’s a place for everything, but for that, what you just said, was not the place’.”
Having been a native to the area, he was also responsible for helping the bus drivers as they navigated the area, pointing them in the right direction if they ever got lost.
Of course, Endress loved the community so much that he chose to never leave, opting instead to live out his time on his farm and raise his own kids in a town that has grown into what we now know.
