was the exact amount of money in
my pocket.” The Bible verse was
added after September 11 th because
Sandra believed that “everyone
needed comfort after that day.”
Since then, multiple people have
reached out and thanked them for
adding the comforting scripture.
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If you ask Jerry Waller how he
got started in the flooring business
that morphed into a county trea-
sure, he will tell you simply that it
“started on a shoelace.”
“There were a lot of prayers
going up or we wouldn’t have
made it,” Jerry said.
Married in 1974, both Jerry and
Sandra are Parker County natives
through and through. According to
Jerry, Sandra came to Weatherford
when she was “real small.” She
attended Weatherford ISD and
graduated from Weatherford
High School. He was raised out
in Peaster, attended Peaster ISD
and graduated from Peaster High
School in 1963. It was not long
after that that Waller was build-
ing bombs in Fort Worth. He was
looking for a new job when he
came across a newspaper ad for a
floor layer.
“He hired me at $1.50 an
hour in 1968,” Jerry said. “When
he took off for six months or so
and left me there with no pay,
I went to work laying carpet for
Sears. I worked there for a while
and wanted to go to school, but
there was not one in the state
of Texas. The only one was in
Sacramento, CA. It was a three-
year course for carpet and three
years for Armstrong [carpet]. So, I
packed everything up and moved
to California. I worked during the
day and went to carpet school at
night, and [then] found out I could
go to Armstrong and vinyl school
in another town.”
On his days off, Jerry would
drive to the connecting town and
take the Armstrong course. He
eventually found out how to do
double time in both schools and
finished them in only 18 months.
“I was only able to get my
carpet diploma. After graduating, I
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