Jym (Thomas) Howe:  

Life Well, after graduating from Heritage and suffering through the oil crunch of the 80's our family decided to leave Texas and venture to Nashville, TN. This was in '87. I tried my hand at several jobs and sang part time with a few groups. Rosie Rozell of the Statesmen Qt fell ill just before a trip to FL and I got the call to fill in for him. After returning from my first trip to FL (Clearwater), I told Missy that we needed to move there, I loved it. I had been trained in glassblowing growing up and had taken a weekday job in Nashville at a sign company manufacturing their neon lights. I contacted a sign company in Orlando and within a week was employed there. This was 1989. After several years of working for a couple of different companies, I decided to venture out on my own and have built a fairly successful business (1995). FABCO manufactures custom lighting. Whether Neon, Cold Cathode, Special Effects or whatever you can imagine, we can produce it. The company is international and currently is doing quite well. The company website is fabconeon.com, if anyone is curious. After settling in Orlando for several years I was approached by one of our local news anchors from the evening news. He was a bass singer and had a quartet. Their tenor was leaving and after a 9 year singing vacation for myself, I was now back performing for fun on the weekends. We cut two CD during the 4 years we were together and had our music in rotation on radio as far away as Australia. We were fortunate to be featured on the SeaWorld Easter Sunrise national live television broadcast two years running and performed for many city functions, television programs, professional basketball games, and ...Expand for more