Former National Auto Auction Association president and longtime remarketing industry leader Henry Stanley Jr. — who spent decades in the wholesale car business as a ringman, auctioneer, auction owner and executive — died Tuesday at age 89, NAAA said in an obituary this week.

Stanley, who was an inductee in the NAAA Hall of Fame and recipient of its Pioneer Award, began his auction career in 1960 as a ringman at Capital Auto Auction, eventually becoming an auctioneer and buying the Columbus, Ohio, auction in 1969.

Stanley sold the auction, which had been renamed Ohio Auto Auction, in 1987 and retired briefly. Two years later, Stanley and his wife, Patty, bought Fort Knox Auto Auction in Williamston, S.C., renaming it Carolina Auto Auction.

Stanley’s son Eric Autenrieth is the CEO of Carolina Auto Auction and served as NAAA president in 2004. Stanley was NAAA president in 2000.  Patty Stanley is a NAAA Hall of Fame inductee as well, and past president of the ServNet Auction Group.

The family also previously owned Indiana Auto Auction, which it sold in recent years.

Visitation services will be held 2-4 p.m. (ET) on Feb. 21 at The McDougald Funeral Home in Anderson, S.C., followed by a Celebration of Life service at 4 p.m.

Memorials can be made to Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Calvary Home for Children or other charitable organizations.