Thurman could not say no to service in HSB

For someone who never expected to run for public office, Horseshoe Bay’s fourth mayor Elsie Thurman seemed to inhabit the role with effective and efficient confidence.

As her successor, Mayor Jeff Jones described Thurman, “She is deliberate, but decisive. Patient, but persistent. Fair, but she is firm.” It is a good description, but not what she expected to be doing when she and her husband, Andy, moved to HSB.

“When we moved to Horseshoe Bay, I boldly announced to friends that I was done with committees and minutes. I wanted to golf, play tennis, travel and just be retired,” Thurman recalled. She had served on innumerable non-profit boards in Santa Fe, New Mexico.