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Texas Jeweler Takes Circuitous Route Back to Family Business

A background in hospitality helps in luxury retail.

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Chay Rees Runnels

Chay Rees Runnels has a family history in jewelry, a Ph. D. in forestry, a background in hospitality and a future in gemology. She teaches hospitality at Stephen F. Austin University, works at Rees Jewelry in Nacogdoches, TX, with her mom, Charlene Rees, and plans to pursue a graduate gemologist degree.

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