SATTERWHITE LOG HOMES - Key Persons

Sam Satterwhite left college in 1973, lacking a semester of graduating, to start his own business. With plans to use his real estate broker's license to sell farm and ranch properties, he decided to first build his own home which was a brick A-frame, quite different for conservative East Texas. A friend of his in the timber business stopped by one day and asked him, "If you'd build something as different as an A-frame, how about building me a log home?" Sam began building that first log home near Henderson, Texas in late 1974. From the very beginning, Travonda Nicholas was at Sam's side, first running the office of his fledgling company, but very quickly becoming his partner in all things, Travonda Satterwhite.