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A family thing,
going back a while.

Frank Sr. kept a bee suit in a closet at his shop.

He always talked about keeping bees someday, but he never did. That's what got his son Frank into it. Frank grew up seeing that bee suit, sat on the idea for a while, and finally gave it a shot.

The push came when his daughter Mary started college at Michigan State. Frank would drive up to get her, and on the way back to Texas they'd stop at a country store in Missouri that sold honey in big jars. He'd grab one every trip.

By the time those drives were done, he missed that honey enough to try making it himself. "I don't need to drive all the way to Missouri to get this honey. I can do this on my own," he said. He started with six hives, and three years later he's at fifteen and they haven't run out.

Named after her. Made by bees.

Mona is Frank's wife, Ramona Black-Graves, a North Texas Hall of Fame basketball player. On the court they called her Mona B, after her maiden name, Black. Every time she hit a three, you'd hear it: "Mona B for three."

Frank started keeping bees without asking her first. The hives just showed up at the door one day, and he named the honey after her to make up for it. So now she's Mona Bee. Not for three. For honey.

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