the business in 1950. By 1970, he had bought out the original part- ners. Wayne came to the business in 1972, and his son Shaun joined the business in 1995, becoming vice president in 1998. With 3 generations in the fam-
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around periodically, and the rivers and creeks got real low. When I was growing up,” he remembers, “my parents said the fi rst thing you’re supposed to pray about is rain.” Geistweidt has talked to a lot of
Cattle fi ll the pens at Gillespie Livestock Company on sale day each week.
people around Fredericksburg who lived through the dry 1950s. Opin- ions on which was worse run about half and half. But, he says, they all agree that the period in 2011 when
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