ProRodeo Sports News | 2020 Year-End Edition | Dec.18, 2020

PASSAGES OF 2020

HAROLD GENE FRIZZELL 10/19/1936-7/22/2020

GEORGE ROBERT CARTER 5/17/1942-1/8/2020

LOGAN ADAMS 2/13/2020

Frizzell, a PRCA Gold Card member, competed in tie-down roping, team roping and steer wrestling. He also worked as a wrangler and stuntman inWesterns filmed in Arizona. Frizzell worked nearly 15 years on the White Stallion Ranch as a head wrangler; later running his real estate business during the 1980s and ’90s. He was known for his dedication to his work and the rope horses he and his son competed on. KELSEY WAYNE GARRISON 7/26/1985-1/25/2020 A PRCA tie-down roper, of Dumas, Texas, Garrison was a husband, son, brother, uncle and friend to many. He owned and operated KGMS, a custom harvest business. He also managed his cow-calf operation. Gee, a veterinarian, became the first Montana Circuit steer wrestling year-end champion in 1975. He also competed in bull riding and bareback riding. He was inducted into the Colorado State Rodeo Hall of Fame in February. TERRENCE (TERRY) E. GOODRICH 1/7/1937-2/22/2020 Goodrich, a former PRCA steer wrestler and tie- down roper, spent most of his life around horses and rodeo, joining the RCA in 1955. Goodrich primarily entered rodeos in the Northwest, competing in steer wrestling and tie-down roping, but among his highlights was competing in the wild horse race at Madison Square Garden in the late 1950s. GORDON BAYLESS GRIFFITH 1/6/1958-8/23/2020 Griffith qualified for the 1982 National Finals Rodeo in bareback riding. In Griffith’s lone appearance at the NFR in Oklahoma City, he finished 13th in the average and 13th in the world standings. JAMES DENNIS JACOBSEN 9/21/1948-7/18/2020 Jacobsen was the Montana Circuit year-end all- around champion in 1975 and the circuit’s year-end champ in saddle bronc riding from 1975-77. Jacobsen was one of the first sevenWrangler Pro Rodeo judges, which took him to the National Finals Rodeo multiple times. Jacobsen had his name inscribed in the Montana Hall andWall of Fame in Billings. ARLENE JANETTE BROWN KENSINGER 6/18/1930-3/25/2020 Spending nearly her entire life in the rodeo world, Kensinger founded the Dandies at Cheyenne Frontier Days in 1970 and was the director for 29 years. She served on the Miss RodeoWyoming Board for 10 years. Among the halls of fame Kensinger was inducted into were the Cowgirls of the West Museum in 2000 in Cheyenne; National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2002 in Fort Worth, Texas; and Miss Rodeo America Hall of Fame in 2004 in Las Vegas. JOHN WILLIAM GEE 2/23/1935-3/20/2020

A PRCA Gold Card Member, steer roper and team roper, Carter rodeoed in the PRCA in the 1970s and ’80s and eventually in the Senior Steer Ropers Association. AARON JAMES CHAMLEY 8/26/1972-9/6/2020 A PRCA team roping header, Chamley was a five- time Great Lakes Circuit Finals Rodeo contestant, five-time IRCA champion header and 2011 Iowa’s Best Roper. HAROLD (CASEY) LLOYD CORDELL JR. 12/15/1967-7/24/2020 Cordell qualified for the 1990 National Finals Rodeo as a team roping heeler. He produced team roping events, contracted and provided roping cattle for the George Strait Classic team roping event. THOMAS (TOM) LEE CREAGER 6/16/1929-9/20/2020 Creager trained PRCA tie-down roping horses and barrel racing horses. He started training from an early age. As well as training tie-down roping horses and barrel horses, he raised and trained racehorses and had a successful record at the track. A bareback rider and PRCA permit holder, Depew was headed to his first PRCA event – the Cinch World’s Toughest Rodeo in Des Moines, Iowa –at the time of his passing. Depew was attending Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo., on a rodeo scholarship studying agri-business. TOBY SCOTT DRENNAN 9/22/1972-7/20/2020 Drennan, who bought his PRCA card in 1996, earned $302,807 in his PRCA career, retiring from competition in 2008. He finished in the top 20 in the world standings three times. After retiring, he was the PRCA Bareback Riding Director for two years. JOHNNY KIRK EDMONDSON 11/5/1946-2/9/2020 A former PRCA tie-down roper, Edmondson won the average in San Antonio and placed second in Dallas to help him win the tie-down roping title the first year the Texas Circuit was formed in 1975. Edmondson also placed at Cheyenne and Houston. In 2000, he was inducted into the Cowboy Walk of Fame in Stephenville, Texas, and in 2013 he was inducted into the Tarleton State University Rodeo Hall of Fame. SALLY ROSITA MARVEL FREEMAN 12/8/1952-4/14/2020 Known as “Mustang Sally,” Freeman roped her first mustang when she was 14 and became a renowned cutting-horse trainer. She also started her own fashion line and helped her youngest daughter, Quincy, start a western brand: Rodeo Quincy. TUCKER JOHN DEPEW 3/13/2001-1/10/2020

A former PRCA tie-down roper and Gold Card member, Adams began

competing nationally in the Rodeo Cowboys Association. He was inducted into the Bell County Cowboy/Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Texas Rodeo

Cowboy Hall of Fame. GALE E. ANDERSON 8/8/1938-6/26/2020

A former PRCA Gold Card member as a barrelman and specialty act, Anderson began his rodeo career as a bull rider in the late 1950s. He worked his last rodeo as a barrelman and specialty act in November 1994. Anderson was proud to have worked with so many of the great bullfighters, contract acts and stock contractors of the RCA and PRCA. BETTY LORRINE ANDREWS 4/26/1921-4/21/2020 The mother of PRCA stock contractor Sammy Andrews, Betty Lorrine will be remembered for her loving heart and navigational skills on the highway. She ran the Branding Iron Restaurant, the Cotton Burr WesternWear Store, and traveled back and forth toWaco to manage the hotel. CHARLOT BEARD 1/25/1928-8/17/2020 The wife of PRCA stock contractor Frank Beard, Charlot was an accomplished horsewoman and the Toppenish PowWow Rodeo Queen in 1946. With Frank, she managed Beard Rodeos, which provided bucking horses and bulls at rodeos across the West. A trip to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas capped each year, where many of their horses and bulls were selected for the rodeo. FRANK BEARD 1/23/1928-10/19/2020 Beard was a longtime stock contractor, competitor and Gold Card member, who had stock chosen for the National Finals Rodeo. He competed in the Pacific Northwest as an all-around cowboy in saddle bronc riding, bareback riding and tie-down roping. Beard was also a top-notch pickup man. He continued to trade and train horses and was a highly skilled farrier. In the 1970s, Beard founded Beard Rodeos, earning a reputation for good stock, quality production and honesty in dealing with rodeo committees and contestants. Beard Rodeos joined the PRCA in 1987, providing stock at Northwest rodeos including Ellensburg, Wash., Pendleton, Ore., Lewiston, Idaho, Sisters, Ore., and Hermiston, Ore. DR. JOSEPH (JOEY) DAMASE BERGEVIN 7/4/1936-10/12/2020 Bergevin qualified for the 1959 National Finals Steer Roping. He placed fourth in the average at the NFSR with a 210-second time on six head and finished 10th in the world standings. That year he also won steer roping at the Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up. Three years earlier, he was the tie-down roping champ in Pendleton. He was a horses-only veterinarian and served the Seattle area for more than 50 years.

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