Actually he was a retired minister. My husband is a minister also. When we came to this Church to pastor his wife found out I was a quilter. She said she had always wanted to make a quilt from his ties, but she didn't know how. I told her I would be glad to do it for her. When he died he had over 300 ties. She said he love to shop for ties. She gave a lot of them away. After I got through with the quilt she found another box full.