DEPTH CONCRETE, INC.
East Bay Native Seanery Donaville, Sr.’ s Company Continues Family Legacy of Ethics and Excellence
Left: Seanery( Sean) Donaville Sr., owner, Depth Concrete, Inc.
A Strong Foundation
Seanery( Sean) Donaville Sr., owner of Oakland-based Depth Concrete, Inc., is an East Bay native who grew up in Oakland and Richmond.“ Our back yard was El Cerrito and our front yard was Richmond.”
Sean was introduced to the trades by his father, who worked until retirement as a bus driver for AC Transit, but always had side jobs as a handyman.“ He was my best friend and I was always with him, I loved working with him.”
Originally from Louisiana, both of his parents had a strong faith, work ethic, and sense of community and passed these values along to their children. The congregation to which Sean’ s family belonged pooled their resources to be able to build a new church in Richmond, which young Sean and his dad helped build.
The church members also purchased a 320-acre ranch, where in addition to collaboratively building a bunk house and hosting religious retreats, rodeos, and other events, they communally cared for cattle, horses, ponies, goats, chickens, pheasants, peacocks and even several penguins.“ This family and community environment kept us far away from the streets – all of us kids spent a lot of time together on the ranch and grew up feeling like cousins, even though we weren’ t blood cousins, but because our mothers were sisters in the church,” he recalls.“ I learned a lot of building skills from church members while working on projects at the ranch.” As the older members passed away, the church members of Sean’ s generation inherited the ranch, and, as he notes,“ we’ ve been using it and maintaining it for the past 50 years.”
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