{"id":17376,"date":"2020-02-14T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17376"},"modified":"2020-12-30T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T01:40:55","slug":"anne-windfohr-marion-1938-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=17376","title":{"rendered":"Anne Windfohr Marion, 1938-2020"},"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\/2020\/02\/anne-marion.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17379\" width=\"214\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/anne-marion.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/anne-marion-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne Windfohr Marion, Fort Worth, Texas, influential businesswoman,\nrancher, and patron of the arts, passed away on February 12; she was 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marion was the great-granddaughter of Samuel Burk Burnett,\nfounder of the famous Burnett cattle empire of Texas. In 1980, when her mother,\nAnne Burnett Tandy, passed away, Anne Marion inherited Burnett Ranches,\nincluding the Four Sixes in Guthrie, headquarters of the horse division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a keen horsewoman, Anne Marion has left an enduring\nimpact on the Quarter Horse breed. She brought new bloodlines into Burnett\nRanches stock, while maintaining the foundation established by her grandfather,\nTom Burnett. Most of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prominent Quarter Horses, including race and\ncutting horse performers, carry Burnett Ranches bloodlines deep, if not up close,\nin their pedigrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also played an instrumental role in establishing Fort\nWorth as home of what became the National Cutting Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s showcase event,\nthe NCHA Futurity, which rivaled the All American Futurity, as the Quarter\nHorse industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s richest event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was layin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 all the time for this place (Will Rogers Coliseum),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said the late Marion Flynt, an early-day NCHA president. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We had obligated ourselves to a pretty good sum of money, and the only way we could get it was to sell these boxes. So I called &#8216;Little Anne,&#8217; a good friend of mine, and I told her, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI want you to sell every box that we have, if you can.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 She came up with the money and from that day on it caught fire. It grew beyond anybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expectations.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to her dedication to ranching and horses, as an arts patron, Anne Marion was a major benefactor of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and founder of the Georgia O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She also donated the life-size bronze of racehorse champion and sire Dash For Cash, created by NCHA Hall of Fame Member Jim Reno, to the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum, and the bronze that stands in front of the National Cutting Horse Association office in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among many honors, Anne Marion is included on the Hall of\nFame rosters of the American Quarter Horse Association, the National Cowgirl\nMuseum, the National Cowboy &amp; Western Heritage Museum, and the National\nRanching Heritage Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Windfohr Marion, Fort Worth, Texas, influential businesswoman, rancher, and patron of the arts, passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting","category-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376","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=17376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17382,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17376\/revisions\/17382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}