Experience is Important

• Inducted into Remax Hall of Fame – February 2002
• Earned the Remax Lifetime Achievement award – 2010
• Awarded 30 year Remax pin in 2022
• Ranked in the 2022 top dozen at Remax Boone Realty- the largest firm in central Missouri
• Designations: Broker Sales Person, GRI
• Have held 4 other designations but if you do not pay their annual fee you are not permitted ot list them.
• 22 years (1972-1994) as County Executive Director Boone County ASCS (USDA Farm Programs) Columbia is in the center of Boone County.
• 1991-92 received Columbia Chambers Agicultural Recognition Reward
• 1995 Presented Outstanding Agriculture Community Service Award from Boone County University Exension Council
• BS Degree in Agriculture from KSU – 1966
• Proud U.S. Navy Veteran – Joined Navy when 17 years old
• Earned Brokers license in 1973
• Retired from USDA with 26 years of service in 1994
• Full Time REALTOR® since 1994
• Active on Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee
• Past Board Member of TRYPS (Theatre Reaching Young People in Schools) 1999-2004
• Past Bank Director for the Callaway Bank
• Past Board Member of Little Dixie Kiwanis Club
• Past Board Member of Boone County Farm Bureau
• Member of Columbia Multilist Service (MLS) & Jefferson City MLS.

• Don was born and reared on a livestock and grain farm between Moundville and Nevada, Missouri
• 1959 Graduated from Nevada, Missouri High School. Joined the Navy when 17 in fall after farming with father in summer.
• 1962 Started college at Texas A & I, Kingsville, Texas while in Navy. Got early out to attend college full-time
• 1964 Married Mary Gilmore from Lebanon, Missouri. Her father was a small livestock farmer
• 1966 Graduated from Kansas State University with BS in Agriculture Education Joined Allied Chemical Corporation as fieldman for Northeast Kansas selling fertilizer and ag chemicals plus servicing and establishing independent dealers. Lived in Lawrence, Kansas
• 1968 Allied Chemical Corp. promoted Don to Sales Supervisor over Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon and Washington). Lived near Portland, Oregon
• 1970 Due to his father’s health, he returned to midwest with Dempster Industries as Territorial Sales Manager over Northern Missouri, Eastern Iowa, Western Illinois and Southwest Minnesota selling pesticide and fertilizer equipment plus rural water systems. Dempster is one of the few windmill manufacturers. He lived in Kirksville, Missouri
• 1972 Due to excessive traveling and desire to be with his wife and daughters more, Don resigned and joined USDA-ASCS. In November of ’72, Don was hired as County Executive Director of Boone County ASCS. Mary earned her real estate Broker’s license and joined Jacobs Realty.
• 1973 Don earned his real estate brokers license
• 1976 Owned and operated a small grain crop farm southeast of Columbia from 1976 to 1984
• 1980 Mary and Don starting owning and managing rental property and formed Emery Management in 1982
• 1984 Mary joined Boone Realty Corporation and managed over 500 apartments and commercial properties
• 1986 Don joined Boone Realty which later purchased RE/MAX agency for Columbia
• 1994 Don applied for and received early retirement after 22 years as Boone County ASCS County Executive Director. (26 years total of Governmental Service.)
• 2002 Don and Mary sold their interest in the management company.
• Don enjoys playing tennis doubles 3 times each week with fellow 80 plus friends- two have competed for over 50 years and Don is a Jr weight at 20 plus years
• As the only student in his class for 5 1/2 years, Don was the top student and the lowest of grade school at the Sylvandale one room School Moundville, Missouri, prior to the school being consolidated into the Nevada High School system in Nevada, Missouri. An important point that has been forgotten is that in Missouri if a person graduated from High School and passed a state wide test they were able to teach all 8 grades in the one room school system.