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Miss Tiffany Rose is inducted into the PHBA Hall of Fame
Dear fellow OPEA members,
It is hard to believe that we are already in the middle of February 2008. This year will be an exciting year for all of us. There are many exciting things planned for the 2008 show season.
Here is an list of some things to come:
The awards banquet this year will be held Saturday May 3 in the evening at the Spring Show. We will be having a potluck dinner. OPEA will provide the meat and chips, please bring a covered dish or dessert! We will also be having our silent auction and new this year will be a live auction also! If you have any items that you would like to donate for the auctions please contact Cristin Murphy at cristin@lopeover.com so that she can make the bid sheets for them.
The Spring show will be held in the covered arena this year and we are planning many fun activities. We will be holding a bake sale for the weekend, so if you like to bake, bring something with you to donate! Also we will be holding a few cake/treasure walks...the treasure could be anything from jewelry to grooming equipment. If there is anything you would like to contribute just bring it with you to the show!
Memorial Day Circuit we are adding three money added stakes classes; Hunter Under Saddle, Western Pleasure, and Trail. These classes will be all age classes and open to any breed. Check the web site for more information to follow. If interested in sponsoring a class please contact me at cynthiaacox@aol.com.
We are still looking for class sponsors for the year too. For $50 sponsor a class for the whole year! Help us reach our goal of having every class sponsored this year! If interested please contact Peggy Missel at lmissel@tds.net.
This at least gets us to the World Show. Keep checking for updates as we get closer to the shows.
Your Show Committee values and wants your ideas! Please feel free the share your ideas and concerns to any of your Show Committee members throughout the year. We are here for you and want your experience at the OPEA shows to be the best that we can provide. To find their contact information just click on the link for the Officers page to the left.
Together we can make this year and years to follow fantastic!
Cynthia Cox
2008 OPEA President
There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. -Will Rogers
updated January 28,2008
Patricia “Patty Maye” Shuler, 52, of Havana, joined her Lord on Friday, January 25, 2008 at St. John’s Medical Center in Tulsa, OK.
Patty Maye was born on October 25, 1955 in Coffeyville, KS, the daughter of Ernest and Velma Hufferd.
She married Mark S. Shuler on June 21, 1975 in her sister’s home, North of Havana, KS. Together they made their home on the family farm raising and training horses under the PMS Quarter Horse brand. Her love of horses earned her recognition of 2 Awards at the 2004 Palomino World Horse Show in Tulsa in addition to various awards over the years.
Patty was a member of the Tyro Christian Church. She was active in the Palomino Horse Assoc., the American Quarter Horse Assoc., and the Kansas and Oklahoma Palomino Horse Associations.
For 13 years, Patty was employed by Caney Unified School District in Caney, KS as a Data Processor.
Surviving to honor her memory is her husband, Mark; her mother, Velma; brothers, Jerry Arie and Ernest Eugene Hufferd; sister, JoAnna Daniels; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father and an infant sister, Anna Delores.
Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at Tyro Christian Church, Tyro, KS. Interment will be Thursday at 10:00 a.m. in Hutchinson, KS at Mitchell Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m, Tuesday at Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel, Coffeyville, KS. The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. that evening. In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial contributions to be given to the Palomino Youth Scholarship Fund in care of the funeral home.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark and Patty's family in this difficult time.
2008 Show dates are as follows:
(Location of early May show and November show are subject to change.)
Prosecutor Lucy Roberts' rites set
11/28/2007
A funeral service is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Grace Lutheran Church. Interment will follow at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens in Broken Arrow.
Services are under the direction of Moore's Southlawn Funeral Home.
Roberts was born Feb. 2, 1953, in Los Angeles and moved to Tulsa with her family when she was 5. She attended Tulsa Public Schools, graduating from Edison High School.
She received bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Oklahoma State University and taught school for one year before enrolling in the University of Tulsa's law school, from which she graduated in 1979.
She then worked for 12 years as a Tulsa County assistant district attorney, where she advanced from handling child-support and mental-health matters to leading a senior trial team and handling felony prosecutions.
In 1991, Roberts became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Tulsa-based Northern District of Oklahoma, handling drug and gun prosecutions and working with law enforcement officials on the Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
Roberts also showed palomino horses and competed in ropings and team pennings.
She married David E. Roberts in 1999.
Despite a three-year battle with breast cancer, Roberts continued to handle a difficult caseload until late August, when she accepted medical retirement.
She is survived by her husband, David Roberts; her parents, Lawrence "Bud" and Anna Lucy O'Bert of Houston; and a brother, Mike O'Bert of Houston.
Friends are making memorial donations to Susan G. Komen for the Cure; 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250, Dallas, TX 75244.
Wanted to let those that have asked and those that may not know of the passing of Ron's mother. Thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers, they are greatly appreciated.
Virginia M. Honeck |
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| Virginia M. Honeck, 83, of KCMO passed away November 22, 2007. Memorial services will be 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, at Mount Moriah Terrace Park Funeral Home, inurnment in Mount Moriah Terrace Park Cemetery. Arrangements: Mount Moriah Terrace Park Funeral Home, 801 NW 108th St., Kansas City, MO. 64155 (816) 734-5500. Published in the Kansas City Star on 11/25/2007. |
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2008 Officer Nominations
All: We need recommendations for 3rd V.P. Show. (If no one else
volunteers, Bud will do it.)
We need recommendations for V.P. Entertainment
President Cynthia Cox
President-Elect Erin Teague
V.P. Show Bill Miller
Erin Teague
Open
V.P. Go For the Gold Patti Casillas
Libby Crandall
Lois Smith
Y.P. Youth World Robert Meyers
Heather Williams
V.P. Secretary Linda Moree
V.P. Libby Crandall
V.P. Finance & Sponsorship Barbara Miller
Peggy Missel
V.P. Entertainment Open
Webmaster-Historian Cristin Murphy
Youth Chairperson Cristin Murphy
State Director 2 Year Lisa White (Replaces Chuck
Creekmore who moved to New Mexico)
State Director 3 Year Carolyn Henderson
Tony Kreibeil
Nikki Longacre
Peggy Missel
All other State Directors stay the same and move up 1 year.
Note from Jordan Miller, Youth President:
I wanted to inform you that there will be a silent auction at the Thanksgiving Show. If you have anything that you would like to donate, that would be great. All of the money raised will go back to OPEA. The auction will run all during the three-day circuit, and will close on Sunday. There are already some great items donated, so please donate more! We want to make this really great and help our association! Please send this to anyone else that you might know of that is coming (or thinking about coming) to the OPEA Thanksgiving Show. .
2007 Annual OPEA General Membership Meeting
December 1, 2007 at the NEW Host Hotel
Radisson Inn Tulsa Airport
Noon-1:00 lunch in the Restaurant
1:00 - 3:00 Meeting in the Florence Room
Agenda Includes:
Vote on New Officers
Committee Reports
Old Business
New Business
The A-OK Thanksgiving Circuit show information has been posted.
Patricia Montgomery's son,
Garrett Johnson, was killed on Wednesday, September 19.
Please keep the Montgomery family in your prayers.
There is a tribute page on the funeral home website.
Wesley Garrett Johnson
19, a resident of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, passed away September 19, 2007 in Searcy, Arkansas. He was born April 28, 1988 in DeRidder, Louisiana, the son of James and Patricia Denard Johnson.
Garrett was a 2006 graduate of Prairie Grove High School where he Played football. He was employed by T.K Stanley Inc. as an oil field rigger.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather Horace Denard and paternal grandmother, Joyce Johnson.
Survivors include his mother Patricia Montgomery and husband Jeffrey of Danville, Arkansas, and his father, James Johnson and wife Barbara Gale of Ovett, Mississippi; six brothers, Jason Scott Nichols and wife Mandi of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, Clayton Nathaniel Montgomery, Danville, Arkansas, Jefferson Noble Montgomery of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Jason Daniel Montgomery and wife Janel of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Jeremy Todd Montgomery of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Wesley Creel of Ovett, Mississippi; six sisters, Crystal Nicole Suire and husband Dwight of Anacoco, Louisiana, Brittany Darlene Shelley and husband Jarrod of West Siloam, Oklahoma, Casey Lauren Montgomery of Danville, Arkansas, Jean Ann Montgomery of Halthorp, Maryland, Kimberly Desiree Patterson and husband Chris of Silver Springs, Maryland, and Jessa Marie Creel of Ovett, Mississippi; his paternal grandparents, Wesley Junior Johnson and wife Beth of Chathem Tennessee, and his maternal grandmother, Claudia Gipson of Prairie Grove, Arkansas and step maternal grandfather Sylvester Gipson of Ada, Oklahoma; his paternal step grandparents, Jeffrey and Rita Montgomery of Fayetteville, Arkansas; his step maternal grandmother, Evelyn Denard of Owasso, Oklahoma.
Visitation will begin Friday at 4:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at the Luginbuel Chapel in Prairie Grove.
Funeral Service will be held Saturday, September 22, 2007 - 10:00 A.M. at the Prairie Grove Christian Church, Prairie Grove, Arkansas, with John Hooser officiating. Burial will be in the Prairie Grove Cemetery, Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
The October 13 & 14 Amateur Sponsored Show has been added to the show links. Check it out!!
The class schedule had been posted for the Labor Day Circuit.
The slot class has been cancelled for the Labor Day Circuit.
Our sincere condolences to OPEA member Libby Crandell on the loss of her father, Tom Sellers, on Monday, July 9, 2007.
CARDS AND NOTES:
Libby Crandell
23608 E 137th Street South
Coweta, Oklahoma 74429
Update:
Georganne is now home (and at the World Show) and getting better everyday. Thank you so much for the prayers and flowers.
GET BETTER QUICK!!!!!!!!
As many of you have heard, Georganne Cox is recovering from a stroke she suffered on June 27. She is doing fine and is undergoing inpatient rehabilitation at St. Francis hospital in Tulsa. She hopes to be out of the hospital in time for the World Show, though the recovery is not easy and will continue after she returns home. Please keep her in your prayers.
Cards may be sent to St. Francis Hospital, 6161 S. Yale Ave., Room 4219, Tulsa, OK 74136 or to Georganne's home at 3902 E 63rd St., Tulsa, OK 74136.
Due to this unexpected turn of events in the Cox family, the newsletter will not go out before the World. Please excuse this delay.
Any information for the Pre-World Show Newsletter must be submitted by July 1. Submit information to Cristin Murphy: cristin@lopeover.com.
Check out the PHBA/OPEA Reichert Celebration Showbill August 11-12, 2007
We will be offering Hunter in Hand for the OPEA shows this year. Please check your rulebook for information on the equipment and attire.
Here's what Jordan Miller has to say about this class to the youth: (The class is ONLY offered in Open and Youth.)
I just wanted to send this email to tell you about a new class being offered this year at OPEA shows. It is tons of fun. I got to experience it for the first time in Waco, TX. Now, I wan't to tell you early because you have to have some kind of different clothing. The horse is easy, it just uses a English bridle with a straight snaffle bit. You, on the other hand, must wear khaki pants, a conservative color (either) short-sleeve polo shirt or a Oxford button down, tennis shoes, a plain belt (not of western type) and NO hat. The pattern is very simple too. You just walk up to the judges set up in a open postion (all four feet visable by the both judges), the you just walk around 3 cones in a small triangle, then trot the 3 cones. It's really easy. I just wanted to challenge all of you to try the new class. I can talk to some of you at the show too if you have any questions. Thanks!!
Jordan Miller
P.S.
All of these rules are found on pg. 97 of the rulebooks.
A tribute to the great horse "A Predator" has been added to the Profiles page.
3-1-2007
The photos from the awards banquet are now posted! Please click HERE to see the album. The awards list will be posted as soon as I get the information.
2-19-2007
THERE WILL BE A MEMBERSHIP MEETING AT 6:00 P.M., FEB. 24, BEFORE THE DINNER AND AWARDS BANQUET. THE OPEA MEMBERSHIP WILL VOTE ON THE FINAL REVISED DOCUMENT OF THE 'OPEA BY-LAWS'. COMMITTEE MEMBERS: CHAIR-CAROLYN HENDERSON, MEMBERS-TONY KREHBIEL, LOIS SMITH, GEORGANNE COX, CYNDI COX, SALLY SULLIVAN, ROBERT MEYERS, CHUCK CREEKMORE.
Please read the FINAL REVISED DOCUMENT OF THE 'OPEA BY-LAWS' here.
2-16-2007
Our condolences go out to the Ohler family on the loss of Erin Ohler Teague's sister, Aneice Rodriguez who died last Friday, the 9th and her funeral is on February 17, in Claremore. Both Erin and her parents, Wilson and Peggy Ohler have been longtime members of OPEA.
Erin's address is P.O. Box 1391, Claremore 74018, phone # 341-1608 and Wilson and Peggy Ohler's address is 404 E. Woods Ln., Claremore 74017, phone # 341-1212.
Congratulations to Amberly and Mike Phelps of Rich Hill, Missouri
on the birth of their DAUGHTER, Lanie Dawn Phelps, on February 7, 2007.
I know we all look forward to seeing the newest member of our OPEA family soon!
conveniently located at the Tulsa Airport