Three minutes with… Teres Fair of Echo

Published 5:00 pm Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Can you tell me about your home?

My family has lived here for five generations. My grandkids are the fifth generation.

How important is family to you?

Family is the most important thing to me — absolutely, bar none, the most important thing to me. To support and help support a family is what I love the most.

Can you tell me about your family?

In my family, I have two boys, Rubin and Raymond. Raymond is married to Jenna. He’s got two little girls. Rubin is married to Amanda. He has three children.

What do you like to do as a family?

There’s so much. There’s sports. We do a lot of sports. We go to the fair. The grandkids have animals. I own and run a ranch with my oldest son, Rubin. Everyone works on the ranch. My youngest son, Raymond, is a firefighter and his wife is a paramedic.

What’s your ranch work? What do you do?

I manage. I don’t have to sit on tractor anymore. I used to, and I used to buckaroo in my younger days. I’ve done it all, and so now I have kids and grandkids who do it.

Do you miss it?

I can look out my window and watch them do it, and that makes me happy.

What do you want for your grandkids in life?

I want them to have a world where they have opportunities. I’d like them to be able to do anything they want, and be successful in it. I want my grandkids to choose positive things in their lives and be around positive people.

And what do you want for the city of Echo?

I would like to see positive things here. I would like us to be able to promote the city of Echo and the positive things that are already happening here. Because we are a small community, a lot of times we are looked down on a little. We’re not thought of as having a lot of fun things to do, but we do have fun things. We have amazing places and people. We have a golf course, a lot of history. There’s a huge amount of history, and there are a lot of generational families in Echo, families going back four or five generations.