ProRodeo Sports News - April 16, 2021

traveled the rodeo circuit in a horse van pulling a trailer which was their first home. When their kids were school age, Rudy and Joanne settled in Sylmar, Calif. Friend Phil Rawlins introduced Rudy to the “picture business” where he worked for 30 years portraying the true cowboy he was in the background of many feature films andWestern series including “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “Bonanza” and “Little House on the Prairie.” He continued to compete at local rodeos until the early ’70s. He was inducted into the St. Paul Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2006. In retirement, Rudy and Joanne moved back to the Northwest, living near Salem, Ore., from 1987 to 2019 when they decided to move east to Haines to be near family. Joanne passed away April 21, 2020. Doucette is survived by his children Dan Doucette, Mary Ann ( J.P.) Ingram and Lori (Eric) Wilmes.

wrestling champion in the Wilderness Circuit, passed away Nov. 5, 2020. He was 62. Parker was the PRCA’s Wilderness Circuit year-end champion in 1981, 1984-85 and 1992 and the Wilderness

PASSAGES

RUDY DOUCETTE

Rudy Doucette, a PRCA Gold Card member and original Turtle Association member, passed away March 29 near his home in Haines, Ore. It was his 98th birthday. He was born on the family ranch in Malta, Mont., March 29, 1923. Doucette was a young adult when the family sold the ranch and moved to Phoenix. His ranching, horsemanship and roping skills served him well in his rodeo career as he competed in bulldogging and tie-down roping fromCalgary to Madison Square Garden to Phoenix, and many points in between in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. He was a consistent winner competing on the legendary blue roan he purchased fromDee Burke in the early ’50s. Many world champions including Dean Oliver made it to the pay window mounted on Old Roany. Doucette married Joanne Coleman of St. Paul, Ore., Aug. 16, 1952, and the couple

Circuit Finals Rodeo average champ in 1984-85. He rodeoed into his 50s. Parker retired fromGranite School

District in 2017 after decades of

Parker

teaching teens how to ride their silver stallions; he would return to wrangle the occasional go-round of driver’s ed. Parker and his wife, Cathy, had recently bought remote Arizona ranchland where he could train, she could crochet and they could host family members for holidays and getaways.

MARK ROSS PARKER

Mark Ross Parker, a former PRCA steer

PRCA NOTES

Three Hills Rodeo’s Tucker launches bull rider Roscoe Jarboe into the air before the whistle during the eight-man semifinals at the RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Kissimmee, Fla., April 10. Jarboe was uninjured during his fall. Free Fallin’ PRCA ProRodeo photo by Clay Guardipee

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