STATE CENTER, Iowa (KCCI) — A State Center man is grappling with the loss of his woodworking warehouse just months after his son died in a car crash. Barry York is a sixth-generation woodworker. He told KCCI ever since his ancestors came to Davis County in 1846, there’s been a carpenter in the family.On Thanksgiving Day, his warehouse was destroyed in a fire.

According to the State Center Police Department, the Marshall County Communications Center received a report of a commercial structure fire in State Center around noon on Nov. 23. Firefighters from State Center, Rhodes, Melbourne, Colorado, and Clemons responded. Barry York said there is $200,000-$250,000 in damage. Investigators will be at the warehouse Thursday to try to figure out the cause of the fire. York said his business would make anything and everything out of wood. It was a well-known trade in the community.

His son, 43-year-old Bruce York, of Ames, was his longtime business partner, making him a seventh-generation woodworker. Barry York said he was planning on passing the business to his son once he was done. But Bruce was killed in a car crash just months ago. The wreck happened around 8:40 a.m. on July 6 on the south side of State Center. Troopers say a pickup driven by Bruce York was attempting to make a turn when it was struck by another vehicle.  The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office said the younger York was pronounced dead on the scene.