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Wilson Lumber Company 4818 Meridian Street, Huntsville, AL 35811 wilsonlumber.net | 256-772-7411#34

Ken Wilson was only 7 years old when he climbed on top of a lumber truck and handed planks down to his father. At 9, he was using a band saw out behind their home, working to fill an or-der for a big customer. They seemed like tough life lessons at the time — Ken even jokes about

how dramatic he was when his father made him saw planks in the cold.

“I went on out to the lumber shed to do it, and I was feeling so sorry for myself that I thought, ‘If I were to freeze to death, my dad would really be sorry that he made me work,’” Ken said.

Of course, he wasn’t at risk of frostbite. This is Alabama, where winters barely require a coat. Those life lessons — the hard work, the customer service, the overall ethics of the company

were hard at first, but now Ken, along with his brothers Rick and Steve, know that those were the foundations of good business practices.

By the time Ken was an adult, he knew he wanted to go into the family business, Wilson Lum-ber, to continue their family tradition of hard work and honesty. Rick and Steve followed after-

wards, and the three took over the business from their father, Clyde. Today, they’ve handed down the company to their three sons, Robb, Russ and Mark, but the values instilled in them

by their fathers and grandfather are still alive and well in the lumberyard.

Ken, Rick and Steve passed the business down to their sons Robb, Russ and Mark. They wanted

to pass on the lessons they learned from their father, but just like Clyde, they knew the way to reach and influence young men wasn’t to teach

and preach at them.

In fact, Ken says he didn’t teach his son any-thing in the traditional sense, again leading by

example and hoping his son picked up on the life lessons. Rick’s son Russ graduated from college and went to work in a different industry before realizing the family business was in his blood.

Steve was careful not to pressure his son, Mark, into working for Wilson Lumber. He just wanted him to be a good employee somewhere. Eventu-ally, Mark found his own way back to Huntsville

and started working alongside his cousins.