Sid Higginbotham took the spotlight last month as more than 200 relatives, retired firemen, sub-contractors, real estate agents, preferred lenders and friends gathered at Eagle Landing’s Amenity Center to honor him as a “master builder.” Higginbotham’s company, Sid Higginbotham Builder, Inc. started in 1957 and the gathering was to celebrate 50 years of “quality, craftsmanship and integrity.” Higginbotham was presented with a plaque with one of his old hammers attached to it. Apparently, the hammer is the only one Sid’s son, Roger, also president of the building company, could find. It was one his son Kyle had “commandeered” years earlier when he was 10, and inscribed it with a nickname “Higgie.” Bill Sekeres, who had requested the hammer from Roger, thought no other hammer could be more perfect for the plaque.
Elvis was there and Chill Hotchkiss, a real estate agent for Eagle Landing, was the disc jockey.