Stillwater Automotive has been owned and operated by Lonnie Daugherty since 1988. Lonnie came to Stillwater in 1977 to attend Oklahoma State University where he graduated with a BA in History in 1981. He grew up in his father's auto shop in Muskogee, OK and worked his way through OSU as a mechanic in a local shop. He worked as a Lincoln/Mercury Shop Foreman and as a Honda Tech before opening Stillwater Automotive.