Love brought Waltraud "Wally" Prechter to America. As a newlywed in 1977, Prechter followed her husband, Heinz, founder of sunroof pioneer American Sunroof Corp., to the U.S.
Having been in the country since the 1960s, Heinz Prechter was already steeped in American life and culture and "got a kick out of me getting used to different things," Wally Prechter said. "I came from a small village; I wasn't used to living on that level of society that I lived here."
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