Meet Our Founder

The start of a charitable endeavor.

During the course of 2010-2011 the idea of North American Hunters for Heroes/Texas Hunters for Heroes came to being. Time was working in San Antonio near the base and where many soldiers wounded in the Middle East were getting treatment and rehabilitation. We were at our deer lease in San Saba, TX sitting around the fire one night, Tim hatched the idea of forming a charity. He wanted to share the experiences we had at the lease and create healing through hunting. The idea grew, we applied for a 501(c)(3) and did all the legal work to become a charity. With the help from many volunteers in San Saba, and through word of mouth, we began to hold fundraisers anywhere we could. Wanting to make sure that not only would their food and lodging be paid for but that if we were hunting and they got a deer, dove, or a pig the THH would finance the processing and get the meat back to them. It was a common complaint he heard from veterans that they would be invited to hunts, but if they tagged any game they were responsible for processing and getting the meat themselves.

It was agreed that our groups would be small, giving time and attention in a personal, concentrated way, and making sure the person or family invited felt safe and well cared for. After a couple hunts, we branched out to fishing and held an annual fundraiser at Cedar Creek Lake, then later in the summer had a fishing trip with the weekend paid for through donations.

At the center of all Tim’s plans was a call to service. In the USMC as a Gunny Sergeant, his job entailed caring for troops, filling in the gaps for supplies, and bringing strangers together for the betterment of the squadron. That sense of service carried forward to THH and taking care of troops in another way. As years progressed, there were chapters in Louisiana and Mississippi, and throughout Texas. Other changes took place changing THH into Support Operations Services (S.O.S.) where Tim continued his mission and carried it until it was time to pass it down to his son.