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Wednesday, June 21, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters couple takes the reins at ranch
Obituary
Travis Lee Foutz
By Jim Cornelius
October 3, 1981 — May 23, 2017
News Editor
Travis Lee Foutz, 35, of
Bend passed away on the
evening of Tuesday, May 23,
surrounded by his brother
Brian and sister-in-law
Genny Foutz at St. Charles
Medical Center.
He was born on October
3, 1981, in Burlington, North
Carolina.
He is survived by his
mother, Arlene (Everett)
Garland; father, Keith
(Peggy) Foutz; brother Brian
(Genny) Foutz; nephew DJ
Vitille; and all of his family
in Ohio.
Travis worked for IBEX
in Bend for nine years. He
loved playing guitar and
enjoyed many other forms of
music with his former band,
Hands on Throat. Travis
enjoyed hanging with his
friends, having fun, listening
to music, watching his favor-
ite college football team,
Michigan, and MMA fights.
Travis was always the life of
the party with his quick wit
Jennifer and Glenn Cole
have been coming to Sisters
on and off for 20 years, were
married at the Head of the
Metolius, and for the past
10 years they’ve had a sec-
ond home here. They know
as well as anyone else where
to find the iconic images of
Sisters Country.
“We just love going there
(to Sisters),” Jennifer said.
“It’s a beautiful, inspiring
place to be.”
Now a big piece of that
classic, inspiring landscape
belongs to them. The Coles
have purchased the 345-acre
Patterson Ranch — which is
now the Cole Ranch.
“I’ve always admired
it, since we were younger,”
Jennifer told The Nugget last
week. “We love the way it
looks.”
And the ranch will con-
tinue to look as it does, expan-
sive hay pastures lying green
under the snowclad peaks of
the Three Sisters.
Cole said that the couple is
not interested in development
of the property.
“Our mission is really to
be a good neighbor to our
neighbors,” she said. “Right
now we’re just going to keep
making hay. We’re learn-
ing from Richard and Linda
(Patterson).”
Richard Patterson built
the ranch into a beauti-
ful and successful enter-
prise. Patterson was a horse
PHOTO BY PETE RATHBUN
The Patterson Ranch is one of the most iconic — and most photographed —
properties in the Pacific Northwest.
breeder specializing in Polish
Arabians when the ranch was
purchased in 1968. He moved
out from Ohio in 1973 and
brought the horses and some
llamas with him.
Patterson was a pioneer in
the booming llama ranching
industry, and for many years
the Patterson Ranch was the
largest llama ranch in the
United States.
“The horses were sold in
’89, and I thought a farmer
needs two crops,” he told The
Nugget a decade ago.
So he started his elk herd.
In 1990, the ranch produced
its first calves. In 2009, he
sold the last of the elk to an
operation in New Mexico.
The Coles own 72 and
Sunny, a full-service adver-
tising agency in Los Angeles,
California, www.72andsunny.
com. According to Jennifer,
Glenn will continue to focus
on the agency’s business,
while she takes on manage-
ment of the ranch.
Glenn is a University of
Oregon alumnus, and they
both worked at the major
Oregon advertising agency
Wieden+Kennedy for years.
She has worked in educa-
tion, running a charter school
and working in a program at
Cal State Dominquez Hills to
develop educational leaders.
This is her first experience in
agriculture.
“We’re total newbies,” she
said.
Fortunately for them,
Caleb and Billy Kelleher,
long-time ranch hands, are
continuing on.
“We’re super grateful that
they’re going to stay and help
us,” Jennifer said.
For information on Cole
Ranch hay, contact Diane
Prescott at 541-213-8959.
and great sense of humor.
A Celebration of Life will
be held at Discovery Park in
Bend on June 24 between
the hours of noon and 2 p.m.
Please join us for a luncheon
and to share stories and
remember a life lived to the
fullest.
It is the wishes of the
family that all memorial
contributions be given to
www.littlekidsrock.org. This
group restores, expands and
innovates music education in
schools.
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