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Mary Kay Ash LbNA #69506

Owner:Baby Bear
Plant date:Dec 22, 2015
Location: Hot Wells Shooting Range
City:Cypress
County:Harris
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: NeonKraken
Last found:Nov 21, 2018
Status:FFFFFFF
Last edited:Dec 23, 2015
Difficulty: Easy
Distance to letterbox: 10 yards

This box is place where the town of Hot Wells once was, and where Mary Kay was born. Nothing remains of the Hot Wells Resort, or the town, just a shooting range that took its name. Here is the story about Mary Kay:

Mary Kay Ash, born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Hot Wells, Harris County, Texas, was the daughter of Edward Alexander and Lula Vember Hastings Wagner. Her mother was trained as a nurse and later became a manager of a restaurant in Houston. Ash attended Dow Elementary School and Reagan High School in Houston, and graduated in 1934.

Ash married Ben Rogers at age 17. They had two children, Ben Jr. and Richard Rogers. While her husband served in World War II, she sold books door-to-door. After her husband's return in 1945, they divorced. Ash later had her only daughter, Marylin Reed. Ash went to work for Stanley Home Products. Frustrated when passed over for a promotion in favor of a man that she had trained, Ash retired in 1963 and intended to write a book to assist women in business. The book turned into a business plan for her ideal company, and in the summer of 1963, Mary Kay Ash and her new husband, George Arthur Hallenbeck, planned to start Mary Kay Cosmetics. However, one month before Ash and Hallenbeck started Beauty by Mary Kay, as the company was then called, Hallenbeck died of a heart attack. One month after Hallebeck's death on September 13, 1963 when she was 45 years old with a $5,000 investment from her oldest son, Ben Rogers, Jr. and with her young son, Richard Rogers taking her late husband's place, Ash started Mary Kay Cosmetics. The company started its original storefront operation in Dallas.

Ash was widely respected. She considered the Golden Rule the founding principle of Mary Kay Cosmetics and the company's marketing plan was designed to allow women to advance by helping others to succeed. She advocated "praising people to success" and her slogan "God first, family second, career third" expressed her insistence that the women in her company keep their lives in good balance. Mary Kay Ash died in Dallas, Texas November 22, 2001.

Directions:
The Hot Wells Shooting Range is off the feeder of Hwy 290, between Skinner Rd and Barker Cypress (on the east bound side - going toward Houston). From Skinner, stay in right lane and turn right under Hot Wells arch. Cross Railroad tracks. Turn right on dirt road and go to first telephone pole on the right. Stop.

To the Letterbox:
Walk to that pole. Box at the base under 8 inch rock.