Bill Thomas

A Man’s Word

by
Michael G Ethridge, publisher of The Kendall Gentleman, Boerne, Texas

There are a few things a man can lose and still recover. Money can be made again. A job can be replaced. A bad season can pass. Even a reputation, if the damage wasn’t too deep, can sometimes be rebuilt with enough time, humility, and proof. But integrity is different. When a man loses that, … Read more

The Man Who Built Joy

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Bill Thomas, 95, founder of Joy Pipe USA, at his Boerne home

I spent four and a half hours with Bill Thomas, and I left knowing I had only heard the beginning. That does not happen often. Most interviews eventually settle into a pattern: childhood, career, hardship, lesson learned. Bill does not speak that way. He tells his life as work remembered in motion: cattle gathered, pipe … Read more

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