HIGH PROFILE: Sissy’s Log Cabin has grown from humble beginnings, thanks in no small part to the tenacious founder’s son, Bill Jones

He joined his mother in business in 1984 after studying chemical engineering at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. In 1985, he went to the Gemology Institute of America in Santa Monica, married his wife, Sharri, whom he met in high school, and started making jewelry in the evenings, often working until 2 and 3 a.m. "There's a ...