Everyone's friend and favorite announcer, Clem McSpadden, died July 7th in Houston, Texas. The proud cowboy from Oklahoma had a fifty-one year career as a rodeo announcer and a career as a politician in the Senate and Congress of Oklahoma. But that wasn’t all this “old rodeo tuff” accomplished. He was deeply involved in the first National Finals and the development of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and too many other rodeo-related projects to mention.
Clem was asked to say the Cowboy Prayer, he originated, at many funerals for rodeo friends, and whenever asked. There is no time more fitting than now. In part the Cowboy Prayer says:
Clem has made that last ride, that we know is inevitable, to the country up there – where the grass is green and lush and stirrup high and the waters run crystal deep. And we know, as does our heavenly Father – that his entry fees were paid.”
Funeral services are pending, more will be forthcoming.
