ProRodeo Sports News - May 1, 2020

Branding Iron Restaurant, the Cotton Burr WesternWear Store and traveled back and forth toWaco to manage the hotel. She was blessed with many talents and gifts, including being a talented seamstress. She was a selfless, nurturing mother who lived her life serving and loving others. She was a faithful member of the McKenzie Memorial United Methodist Church and was blessed with great faith. She served in many callings but the one most dear to her was the Positive Regeneration in Developing Economy (PRIDE) organization, where she served as a volunteer. Granny, as she was known by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, leaves behind nothing but beautiful memories. She is preceded in death by husband, Burr; her parents; and brother, Jack Burford. She is survived by son, Sammy (Jacel) Andrews; daughter, Vicki (Aaron) Perkins; grandchildren Samuel Andrews, Drew Perkins, James (Pepper) Andrews, Menden Perkins, Kolt (Tierney) Perkins; and six great-grandchildren.

Grave-side services for the immediate family will be held later. Memorial contributions may be made in her honor to PRIDE by mailing them to PO Box 402, Clarksville, TX 75426.

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BETTY LORRINE ANDREWS Betty Lorrine Andrews, the

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mother of PRCA stock contractor Sammy Andrews, passed away April 21. She was 98. Family and friends will always remember her and cherish her loving heart and navigational skills on the highway. Andrews was born to PJ Burford and Catherine Noble Burford in Clarksville, Texas, on April 26, 1921. She attended Clarksville High School and graduated in 1939. She married B. D. (Burr) Andrews, Feb. 1, 1939. They made their home in Clarksville where they raised two beautiful children. She ran the Andrews

KARISSA JO ARAGON A girl, born Feb. 24, to 2003 Turquoise Circuit champion saddle bronc rider Robert Aragon and his wife, Katherine, of Mosquero, N.M. Karissa weighed 7

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pounds, 10 ounces and was 19 inches long. She was welcomed home by brothers Michael, 8, and John, 4.

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Craig Wentz, of New West Rodeos, looks over his stock with his daughter, Fallon, and son, Wyatt, in Washington. Feeding Time

meniscus in his left knee Feb. 1 at the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo after he was bucked off Frontier Rodeo Company’s Milkman at Dickies Arena. “When I came off in Fort Worth, the bull stepped on the back of my calf, and it twisted my leg and my knee,” said Radley, 21. “I thought my leg was broken there for a second. I had surgery at the end of February. The (doctor) said I would be out about five months.” Radley, who lives in Montpelier, La., is hoping he can return to action – if

rodeos are taking place – around the first of July. “That might be pushing it a little bit, but I’m hoping no later than the (first) of August,” he said. “I hate it for everybody else that rodeos aren’t going on right now because that’s how everybody makes their living, but it has helped me out a bunch because I can recover. It will be a little easier for me to catch up now.” Radley said he had never had any serious problems with his left knee before this happened.

BRIEFS Bull rider Koby Radley recovering from injury Bull rider Koby Radley is using his hiatus time with rodeos on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic to recover from a serious left knee injury. Radley, who has competed at the last two Wrangler National Finals Rodeos, tore his anterior cruciate ligament and

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