ProRodeo Sports News - Nov. 1, 2024

to be learning anything so maybe your horse will.’ While at Sul Ross, Owens was freshman, sophomore, and junior class president, as well as student council president his senior year. Tommy and Edra Ann Walls married on December 14, 1963. Tommy and Edra spent their lives on the ranch in Rankin, where they raised their two children, Shanna and Cody. Owens spent countless hours gathering, drenching, and hauling sheep, goats, and cattle all over west Texas. He spent half of his life on horseback and there weren’t many things he loved more than a good horse or a rank bucking bull. Rodeo was a way of life for Tommy and his family. When Shanna and Cody were growing up Tommy and Edra drove them all over Texas and New Mexico rodeoing. So many rodeo friends were made along the way. Many times, after the rodeo was over, Owens would pull his guitar out and he and a few of his friends would play and sing. The few friends typically turned to large crowds and “Rancho Grande” was always the request. Owens loved to entertain anyone that would listen.

One of Owens’ greatest accomplishments was being inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2008. In the induction ceremony, Owens was recognized as a rodeo contestant, bullfighter, flag judge, stock contractor, and rodeo producer. In 1980, Owens began the Circle T Rodeo Company and started producing rodeos and bull ridings. Owens launched the Barbado Bull Riding in Rankin, Texas in 1997. Tommy Clint was proceeded in death by his parents, Edith and Bode Owens; his sister June Scott, brother-in-law John Robert Scott; his brother Buck Owens, and ranch foreman Homer Ragland. Owens is survived by the love of his life for 60 years, his wife, Edra Ann; daughter Shanna Spillers and son in law John; son Cody Owens and daughter in law Corey. He is also survived by his three favorite people, his grandkids Carter Owens, Caleb Coker and Kinley Coker. The family would welcome memorial donations to the Tommy Owens/Barbado Scholarship – P.O. Box 34, Rankin, TX 79778.

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TOMMY CLINT OWENS

Tommy Clint Owens, a true west Texas gentleman and one of the toughest cowboys around, passed away Oct. 7. He was 84. Owens was born on Jan. 20, 1940, in San Angelo, Texas, to Edith and Bode Owens. Tommy Clint was born into a strong ranching family and ranching continued to be his passion until his last days. Along with ranching, Owens dearly loved rodeo, especially his bucking bulls. Growing up Owens loved roping and playing basketball. In 1958, Tommy graduated from Barnhart High School and attended Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, on a basketball scholarship. He did not initially take his horse to Sul Ross, but at Christmas break, he asked his father Pa if he could take Johnny back to college with him so he could rope. Tommy loved to tell the story when he asked, Pa said, ‘Yes, I think you should take Johnny back because I got your grades, and you don’t seem

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