Obit of Green, Joe - Murray County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Dennis Muncrief 15 Apr 2007 Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Oaklawn Cemetery--Sulphur OK Surnames: Green Love Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.murray/1947/mb.ashx Services for Joe Green, 70, Sulphur, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15 at the Sulphur United Methodist Church with pastor Wayne Edgar officiating. Phil McDrummond a life-long friend of Joe's, will deliver the eulogy. Interment will be in Oaklawn Cemetery with Krien Funeral of Sulphur in charge of arrangements. Born August 9, 1936 in Sulphur to Buel Earl and Helen Christine (Love) Green, he died Monday, Feb. 12 in Oklahoma City. He was a life-long resident of Sulphur, graduating from Sulphur High School in 1954. He joined the Rodeo Cowboys Association in 1953 and began a career as a professional rodeo cowboy, fulfilling a dream. He competed in only the bull riding event in his early days. Some highlights of his career included winning both go-rounds and the average at Ft. Madison, Iowa in 1959. One of the bulls he rode for eight seconds had never been ridden. This earned him a picture on the cover of Time magazine. That same year, he won second in the average at Madison Square Garden in New York City with a purse of $3,200. He also won the bull riding event at the Calgary Stampede in 1964 and qualified for the first National Finals Rodeo in 1959. He would make six consecutive National Finals as a bull rider. He finished ninth in the world in 1957. He returned to Sulphur to help his father with ranching duties when not on the circuit. In 1965, he qualified for the steer roping finals and would become the first person to qualify for that and bull riding finals in the same year. Only two other cowboys have done so since 1965. He won the Super Senior Steer Roping finals at the Lazy E. Arena in Guthrie in 1997 and won several roping saddles over the years. Surviving are one son, Renden Green, Sulphur; two daughters, Kellye Hickman and husband, Phil, Clint, Texas and Melanie Hale and husband, Tim, Sherman, Texas; four sisters, Patricia Chambers, Ardmore, Marilyn Walls and husband, Dale, Richardson, Texas, Judith Trammell and husband, Alvin, Mead and Karen Martin. Checotah; seven grandchildren Garren Green, Royce, Bryce, and Kyla Hickman, Nathaniel, Candace and Zachary Hale; 11 nieces, nephews and a companion, Shely Goodrich, Sulphur. He was preceded in death by his parents. Pallbearers were grandsons Royce Hickman, Bryce Hickman, Nathaniel Hale, Zachary Hale, nephews, Mitch Tribbey, Noel Tribbey, Buel M. Walls, Winston Walls, Joe Alvin Trammell and Travis Trammell. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, 101 Pro Rodeo Dr., Colorado Springs, Colo. 80919. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Murray County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/murray/murray.htm