Members of the community are grieving the loss of Mike Mims, a retired business man and beloved deacon at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.

Mims died Friday when the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a residential fence near The Woodlands.

Michael Gene Mims, known as Mike, was 51 and a resident of Conroe. He hailed from California and was a graduate of the University of Southern California. Mims was a business man who wore many hats. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Gene Mims Investments, a real estate investments company, as well as the owner of Rambling Vines RV Park and Robinson Lake Vineyard. click here for complete story