Rockin' J Fence

08/17/2026

Meet the Team at Rockin’ J Fence

Our employees are the backbone of our company. Their experience, dedication, and hard work allow us to provide quality fencing and gate services to our customers.

Employee Spotlight: Lance

Lance is a Crew Foreman and Gate Operator Specialist. For the past nine years, his leadership, dependability, and knowledge of gate systems have helped keep our crews and projects running smoothly.

Employee Spotlight: David

David has been with us for 23 years and serves as a Crew Foreman. With more than two decades of experience, and over 3000 fences under his belt, we like to say he can build a fence with his eyes closed! His skill, knowledge, and dedication make him an invaluable part of our team.

Employee Spotlight: Shawn

Shawn has been with us for 9 years and now serves as our Shop Foreman. He keeps up with shop maintenance, loads materials for upcoming jobs, and handles many other responsibilities that keep everything organized and our crews ready to work.

Employee Spotlight: Billy

Billy has been with us for 8 years and is the Stain Specialist. As our resident “stain mixologist” and pre-staining expert, he makes sure our wood projects receive the right color and a quality finish before they ever leave the shop.

Employee Spotlight: Hunter

Hunter has worked with us for four years. He specializes in everything fence and brings versatility, skill, and a strong work ethic to every job.

Employee Spotlight: Taylor

Taylor has been a driver and member of our fence crew for five years. Whether he’s transporting materials or working on the jobsite, Taylor plays an important role in keeping our projects moving forward.

Employee Spotlight: Kirk

Kirk has been a driver and member of our fence crew for six years. He helps get our crews and materials where they need to be and works alongside the team to get each job done right.

We’re proud to have Lance, David, Shawn, Billy, Hunter, Taylor, and Kirk on the Rockin’ J Fence team. Thank you all for your many years of hard work and commitment to quality!

08/13/2026

Meet Jory Rector—the face of Rockin’ J Fence and a fifth-generation San Angeloan.

In one life-changing year, Jory married, started a fencing business, and began a family. For the past 29 years, he has built Rockin’ J Fence into a successful, trusted business founded on honesty, hard work, and the kind of integrity where a person’s word and handshake still mean something.

To San Angelo and all our surrounding communities: thank you for your trust, your friendship, and your continued business. We are truly grateful for every customer who has helped make Rockin’ J Fence what it is today.

Built on hard work. Backed by integrity. Proudly serving West Texas for 29 years.

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05/09/2026

Happy Mother's day

04/24/2026

Jodi Waggonner Rector and I were taking a trip down memory lane last night. The subject of Rockin’ J Fence came up and we decided that we should share a bit of the history with our friends and customers that may not know how all of this began. My original intent was to start a lawn and landscape business as I had some knowledge of the trade. I knew that things weren’t going to be easy and that I had to be a bit of a “jack of all trades” so I pretty much took on any work I could find while still working a more than full time job at Reece Albert, Inc on the paving crew. The fence business picked us and circumstances dictated that it was time to go out our own, which meant it was also time to eliminate all unnecessary debt and expenses. There went my lifted ’97 GMC Z71 w/ Centerline rims and 33 x 12.50 BFGs. I loved that truck, but it had to go. As a play toy, I had purchased a1973 Chevrolet Blazer and that thing was rough! It was about 10 different colors, but it ran pretty good and I was able to haul all of my tools in the back of it. Jodi & I decided it needed to look presentable and being that we had very little money, went to the paint store and bought a gallon of exterior oil based paint in hunter green, a couple paint brushes, and a small roller and went to work. It actually turned out pretty good. Then I landed my first official fence job and it was a good one. Myself and one part time guy built the fence around Bent Tree Apartments which has since been replaced, but stood for about 25 years. As we were building that fence, Steve Fowler stopped by. He was a salesman for San Angelo Area Wide Phone Book. Yes, that’s how long ago this was. The phone book, newspaper, and the Thrifty Nickel were the main sources of advertisement back then. Anyway, Steve made me an offer that I couldn’t refuse. He would buy the materials, I would build his fence at his house, and he would place a half page add in the phone book for me. Done! Well it took a bit for the phone book with my shiny half page add in it to print and be distributed, so I had to go to work for some other folks. Once the new phone book was distributed, the phone started ringing ….a little, and I started picking up a few jobs. I couldn’t afford to hire help, so I was pretty much a one man show, but there were times when I just had to have help. Once the old fence had been removed and post holes dug with the posts in them, I would use my analog bag phone to call Jodi, and she would come to the job site with our then six month old son in a back pack. I would get the post where I wanted it, she would hold it in place, and I would dump the sackcrete in the hole, then I would water jet the concrete with this PVC contraption I built which actually worked pretty good. I would check the post and once it was right, we would move to the next one.
I look back on things and truly wonder if we were really tough or just too dumb to know better. There were some close to us that did their dead level best to keep us from being successful, but there were many others in our lives that we couldn’t have done it without. Since we officially started in 1998 with that old Blazer, the business has evolved into a very viable business with our own shop, seven highly regarded employees, pickups and trailers, skid steers, concrete mixers, and all of the tools and equipment needed to efficiently construct fences for our San Angelo friends and neighbors. This little trip down memory lane is as much of a “thank you” San Angelo for your continued support over the last 28 years as it is a history of Rockin’ J Fence, LLC and we ain’t done yet! I miss that old be**er Blazer.