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Business Profile: Stacy Barber enjoys working with friends, family
Stacy Barber
By BARBARA GREEN
Build a Better Bowie is expanding to include a business profile of hometown people who chose to make not only their homes in Bowie, but to invest in the community by operating a business. The News will feature a profile of an assortment of these business leaders during the next few months.
Stacy Barber is the daughter of Nell and Ray Barber. A 1976 graduate of Bowie High School, she has worked as an insurance agent, financial and investment advisor and retirement planning.
Barber started doing business in 1989 with 28 years here and 37 years total. The 58-year-old attended the American College earning the designation “Chartered financial consultant.” She has operated Stacy Barber Financial in Bowie for the past 27 years.
Her family includes her brother, Bruce and his wife Marcia, her niece Lauren Barber and brother, Phil Barber.
Why did you choose to establish your business and home in Bowie?
I wanted to be able to run a business in the town where my parents were and where I grew up. I love the freedom, neighbors, friends and family. It also is close to the Metroplex and the airport.
What do you enjoy about operating in your hometown?
I enjoy knowing and understanding families. I enjoy a “reputation” of being in the same office for 27 years and helping “generations” follow their financial goals.
What is the biggest challenge a small town business faces?
The biggest challenge is “perception” at times that a “small town” advisor does not have access to all the “Metroplex” firms do. Not true, we serve all of Texas and clients in almost all states.
Do you have a business philosophy?
We work a “TEAM” approach which adds to all we do and provides increased benefits to our clients. Everything is specialized in creating a design for individual situations, never one plan for all.
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Botanically speaking it is Heliopsis helioanthoides, native to the United States. Despite being native to 42 states, many new varieties, award winners and press coverage notwithstanding, it has not been an easy plant to find at the garden center.
Most likely you have never said, “Let’s go to the garden center and pick up a flat of false sunflowers.
Read the full Garden Guy column in today’s Bowie News.
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Make no mistake, I don’t believe this hosta was discovered in the shady soil under a Texas Madrone in Guadalupe National Park. It was actually a sport or morphological change in s hosta named Key West. That sounds like a fairy tale story all its own.
But Shadowland Giant Lone Star has winner written all over it. It is large and has thick leaves. When 12 straight days of rain brought out a rainforest of slugs and other forest floor creatures, the bane of hosta growers everywhere, it didn’t load up with holes but simply got more beautiful.
Read the full Garden Guy column in Thursday’s Bowie News.
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Susan’s house looks quite like a movie set, and you would have to think that Supertunia Mini Vista petunias play a prominent role.
Last year it was the award-winning Supertunia Mini Vista Indigo that dazzled with incredible color. The petunias were planted in banister baskets across the front of the house. I featured her photos in an article I wrote about Mini Vista petunias.
Read the full Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.
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