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Miss
Rodeo Oklahoma Princess, Darcy Clark, eleven year old
daughter of Doug and Linda Clark of Wayne, Oklahoma,
will be the Grand Marshall at the Purcell, OK, Heart
of Horse Country Christmas Parade.
On
September 23rd,
the Cheyenne Frontier Days inducted the very first
people in to their Hall of Fame exactly 106 years, to
the date, of the very first performance of Cheyenne
Frontier Days. Those honored were; Margaret Boice,
Daze Bristol, T. Joe Cahill, Charlie Daniels, Shawn
Davis, Marietta Dinneen, Verne Elliott, Gus Fleischi,
C. B. Irwin, Arlene Kensinger, Don Kensinger, Tad
Lucas, Larry Mahan, Ed McCarty, Reba McEntire, Chuck
Parkison, Wilbur Plaugher, Jim Shoulders, Steamboat,
E. A. Slack, Ed Storey, Mabel Strickland, Casey Tibbs,
Union Pacific Railroad, and Princess Blue Water.
Denny
Flynn is receiving the PBR Ring of Honor from the
Professional Bull Riders at this years PBR Finals in
Las Vegas. The ring is reserved for bull riding’s
elite echelon of legends who helped make the sport
what it is today. Flynn won first in the average at
the PRCA National Finals in 1975, 1981 and 1982. In
1979 he rode Steiner Rodeo Company bull, Red
Lightning, and scored 98 points. Larry Mahan and the
best bull riders knew he was a natural. He ranches in
Charleston, Arkansas, with his wife and two children.
Daryl
Mills and Ty Murray, will also receive the Ring of
Honor this year.
September
26 Connie Douglas Reeves, of Kerrville, TX, celebrated
her 101 birthday. Reeves, an Honoree, in the National
Cowgirl Hall of Fame, has been head of Horsemanship at
Camp Waldemar, a girls camp, at Hunt, Texas. She still
rides horses every day during camp, and then goes on
trail rides across the country for fun.
Eddie
Wood, of Pay Day Ranch, Wynnewood, OK, premier
auctioneer since the early 1960s, who has sold
thousands of Texas Longhorn cattle and continues to do
so, celebrated his 80th birthday, Friday night, the
18th, at the Will Rogers Complex in Fort Worth. Over
300 of his ‘closest’ friends attended from all
across the country. |
