Bud Siler, Lock Making Icon, Passes away April 2025

Clifton Eugene “Buddy” Siler, 95, passed away on Friday, April 11, 2025.

Around 1960 C.E. "Bud" Siler made the first Siler lock by copying a pristine Germanic-style lock produced around 1770. From that first effort grew a business that continues to this day to set the standard by which all other locks are judged.

On December 16, 1993, after thirty-plus years of superb service, Mr. and Mrs. Siler retired, and Siler Lock Company was sold to Jim Chambers
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