Ted fought for the Katy Trial for 5 years and during those 5 years he was fighting cancer as well. Ted was interested in giving the Missouri countryside that he and Pat loved so much a chance to be seen by others. When he saw the trail open in April of 1990, it was all of 10 miles long. Today, it’s 237 miles.
I can’t believe it started out with 10 miles.
So, I’m curious about Ted’s vision. What else is left?
Well in Ted’s will, he said that if there was any money left, it should be used to connect the trail to Kansas City. And we’ve worked with state parks to do just that.
It’s really inspiring to see how dedicated Edward Jones associates are still to making sure that Ted and Pat’s legacy lives on.
A core component of being a Jones associate is giving back. It’s that sense of I want to make something better to help somebody else.
We all get to have an impact in our communities through the work that we do every day.
It’s so rewarding to be able to sit on the other side of the table from clients and understand those things that are really important to them and then help make them come to life.
How can we create that legacy for the clients? How can they continue to make an impact? It’s so exciting to have conversations like that, kinda see the spark in their eye and then to know that we have the flexibility to help them create that. It’s awesome.
Whether it be from California to New York, we have this amazing connectedness that allows us to give back to our communities across the U.S. The Katy Trail is a great metaphor for how we can connect people in our community.
Ted was a believer in people and what they could do when they got together. That was Ted’s vision. To connect people in a way that would be beneficial for everyone.
