Lifelong Blanco County resident Cicero A. Rust Jr., born in 1915 near the Buzzard Roost community southwest of Blanco and now ranches East of Blanco, received a Texas Flag, certified to have flown at the Capitol in Austin by the Honorable Patrick Rose State of Texas House of Representative on the 15th day of April, 2008.

The inscription on the flag’s accompanying certificate “For the Lives You Have Touched” Danny Webster finds appropriate for his 91 1/2 year old neighbor. Webster, his wife Shannon, and sons Kailen and Kaileb thought that Cicero’s receiving the flag would be a most fitting honor, as “we are part of many that he has helped out, seeing potential in us.”