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Joe and Shorty began as Hunter Brothers Masonry in 1965, working together until Joe\u2019s retirement in 2010. Shorty still works with Danny, and his presence and experience on the job are priceless assets. While Danny isn\u2019t sure he\u2019ll be able to make it for as many years as Shorty, he can\u2019t help but think of a coming day when Hunter Brothers Masonry is no longer in business. It helps to know, though, that the work of Hunter Brothers will stand long after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaddy always told me they went straight from the cotton fields to laying brick. They worked long hours and really built a name for themselves. I remember he would go to work early in the mornings and come home [in the] afternoons with headlights on; I remember he worked all the time. My Uncle Shorty still works just about every day and has told me he\u2019s worked on people\u2019s houses, their kids, and their grandkids\u2019 houses. It\u2019s good to drive by those jobs years later; everything still looks nice and stands up straight. There\u2019s hardly a road in Lincoln County that we haven’t laid some kind of block or brick or done some kind of work on. I guess my wife and kids get tired of hearing me say that we bricked this house or that one over there,\u201d Danny said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The work has been a family affair through the years and has gifted them a lifetime of memories not common to other work. Shorty\u2019s sons, Charles and Randy, both worked with Hunter Brothers over the years \u2014 Charles longer than Randy. Charles and Danny made quicker work of bricklaying, [with] one being left-handed and the other right-handed. They\u2019d work their way from the outside in, meeting in the middle \u2014 a picture of teamwork and efficiency.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working with the Lincoln County community has been just as gratifying.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said, \u201cWe have worked for some really great people over the years. It’s nice to go out and work for people and get to know some people we don’t know. Some people move in here from another state or across the country, and we make friends with them. They\u2019re people we work around all the time, like other contractors; some I’ve been friends with all my life, and some are just getting started.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking again toward the future and a time when the trowels and mixing drums are put away, Danny has mixed emotions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt’s kind of heartbreaking to know that the name will die out, but at the same time, a lot of people will remember Hunter Brothers Masonry 20 years later. I’m glad my dad was a brick mason,\u201d said Danny. GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WORKING IN the summer heat shoveling mortar and toting brick on the job site alongside his father, Joe Hunter, and uncle, Raybon (Shorty) Hunter, 12-year-old Danny Hunter didn\u2019t know he was working on more than someone\u2019s home. Through each summer break and school holiday, Danny continued to work, eventually learning to lay brick and block, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goodnewsmags.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image_6483441-3-2-1024x576.jpg\")