The Kendall Gentleman
Cover Stories
These are the cover stories of The Kendall Gentleman, the monthly Kendall County magazine for men published by Oakridge Media in Boerne, Texas.
Peyton Turk
From the September 2026 issue. For nearly three decades, he kept Red Crest Pet Shop alive through illness, debt, competition and a changing Boerne.
Bill Thomas
From the August 2026 issue. Born in 1930, he was a Burleson County ranch kid, an Air Force cryptography man, a pipe businessman, a cattleman and a Boerne patriarch.
Scott Carlson
From the July 2026 issue. The first thing you notice about Scott Carlson is that he still carries himself like a firefighter.
Jordan Ballin
From the June 2026 issue. Around Boerne, coaches, teammates and younger players keep using the same word about him: trust.
Danny Phillips
From the May 2026 issue. Pointing to the oak tree behind him, he says, “That’s my family.”
Jason Abbott
From the April 2026 issue. In the hallways of Boerne Middle School North, his presence was defined less by authority than by calm confidence.
William Whitworth
From the March 2026 issue. He is a lifelong Sisterdale rancher, a veteran, the first chief of the Sisterdale Volunteer Fire Department, and a former Kendall County Judge.
General Leroy Sisco
From the February 2026 issue. He served forty-two years in uniform, rising from enlisted service to Lieutenant General.
Jerry McKenna
From the January 2026 issue. After more than forty years of sculpting, he recently put down his tools for the last time.
Donny May
From the December 2025 issue. East of Boerne, his white signs with bold red letters speak for folks who think like he does but don’t have a platform.
Veteran Vignettes
From the November 2025 issue. There was no single cover story that month, just short vignettes on local veterans from every conflict we could source.
Ken Nietenhoefer
From the October 2025 issue. He says he has lived six different lives, and he once wrote them down in a manuscript he calls My 6 Lives.
Casey Barker
From the September 2025 issue. He is a ninth-generation descendant of the pioneers who helped found Kerrville in the 1880s.
Andy Ivankovich
From the August 2025 issue. He came to Mill Dam Road in Comfort looking for a quiet slice of the Hill Country, not a vineyard, and had never tasted Texas wine.
Cody Davenport
From the July 2025 issue. The leader of the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo was born in Uvalde and raised between his family’s ranch and San Antonio.
Collins Martin
From the June 2025 issue. Born in San Antonio to a military family, he grew up in Boerne mowing grass and hauling trash for 125 mobile home sites.
Dorman Vick
From the May 2025 issue. In a workshop full of welding torches and grinders, he mentors his students through sparks and steel.
Ron Martinelli
From the April 2025 issue. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he became one of America’s leading forensic criminologists.
Ed Heath
From the March 2025 issue. Raised in Rio Grande City, he built a career with the Drug Enforcement Administration and served as Most Worshipful Grand Master of the York Grand Lodge of Mexico.
Tommy Mathews
From the February 2025 issue. His connection to Kendall County took shape when his family moved to Boerne in 1967.