like most memphians, i know joe as an astute businessman who started in the family business as a salesman and worked his way up to president and chairman of the board. joe played a major role in the company , ink, known today, one of the largest hardware distributors of its kind in the entire world and longest running business in memphis history. joe was a real titan in the hardware industry. besides leading one of the major privately held companies in the memphis area, joe was a real people person. he had the rare ability to connect and to interact with people of all types and most importantly treated everyone the same way. but much more importantly joe was a philanthropist who always gave back to his community. joe orgal dedicated an incredible amount of his time and resources to charitable organizations throughout the mid south -- the united way, meals and wheels, church health center, rhodes college and the dixon gallery and gardens and many more. . i mentioned meals an wheels. joe took great pleasuring in stopping whatever he was doing, whatever meetings, to personally deliver these