Webster's Dictionary defines work as: sustained physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve an objective or result. Virgil McCool has personified this definition from an early age. In his younger years picking cotton was part of his daily routine. In his later teens, he joined the Air Force. Returning from the service, he began working in the Chrysler factory, and started a family. After he got off work in the evenings, he started doing extra jobs like cleaning and installing carpet, always with a vision to operate his own store. In 1967 Virgil and wife Carole began McCool's Carpet Service behind their home in a pole building. Still working in the factory and keeping up with the store, the McCool's were no strangers to hard work and long hours.