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Getting to know: Gene Hightower
Hightower has been hunting in Llano County for 69 years
It’s been 69 years since Dr. Gene Hightower first hunted in Llano County.
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Dr. Gene Hightower has hunted in Llano for so long that he feels it is coming home. Hightower, 80, has hunted in Llano County for 69 years. “When I come over the hill leading into Llano, I feel as though I am coming home. The fantastic memories that my family has accumulated over the last 69 years can only be equaled by the number of friends that we have made,” said Hightower, who has been coming to Llano to hunt since November 1947 when he was 11 years old and where he shot his first ...

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