{"id":15916,"date":"2019-02-18T20:32:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T01:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=15916"},"modified":"2019-02-21T20:21:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:21:56","slug":"billy-ray-rosewell-sr-1933-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=15916","title":{"rendered":"Billy Ray Rosewell, Sr., 1933 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/show-biz-sandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15930\" width=\"274\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/show-biz-sandy.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/show-biz-sandy-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><figcaption>Billy Ray Rosewell on Show Biz Sandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Billy Ray\nRosewell, 86, an NCHA Hall of Fame Rider and World Champion, passed away on Monday,\nFebruary 18, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised\nnear Mt. Pleasant, Tex., where his father raised cattle and farmed, Billy Ray began\ntraining cutting horses in 1967 and had won three Appaloosa World titles before\nhe hooked up with Show Biz Sandy and her owner Starkey Smith. Rosewell began\nshowing Show Biz Sandy for Smith in 1992, when the Son Ofa Doc daughter was\nfive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a historically close race, where less than $500 separated the top three contenders for 1993 NCHA Open World Champion, Show Biz Sandy and Rosewell prevailed with $42,812; Commandicate and Kenny Patterson earned the reserve championship with $42,385; and Red White And Boon and Kobie Wood placed third with $42,314.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/billy-ray-rosewell-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15931\" width=\"173\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/billy-ray-rosewell-1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/billy-ray-rosewell-1-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kenny\n(Patterson) was like thirteen dollars ahead of me on Saturday night,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rosewell\npointed out, following his win on Sunday, during the World Finals. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I ended up\nwinning it by not very much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I love the weekend shows,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d added Rosewll, who compiled NCHA career earnings of $576,013, showing primarily in weekend competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Billy Ray Rosewell&#8217;s&#8217;s survivors include three sons and one daughter-in-law, Billy Rosewell, Jr. of Cookville, David and Maria Rosewell of Kilgore, Texas, and Tommy Joe Rosewell of Mt. Pleasant; one daughter and son-in-law, Tammy and John of Reno, Nevada; one brother and sister-in-law, Jerry and Katy Rosewell of Cookville; one sister Betty Ann Phillips of Mt. Pleasant; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and numerous other relatives and friends. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funeral arrangements have been made with Harrison Funeral Home, 500 Hwy 67 West, &nbsp;Naples, Texas.  The family will receive friends on Thursday, February 21 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be on Friday, February 22nd, at 10:00 a.m, Interment will follow at Omaha Cemetery in Omaha, Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Ray Rosewell, 86, an NCHA Hall of Fame Rider and World Champion, passed away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15932,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916\/revisions\/15932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}