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2012 Grand Marshal Richard Kinzer
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Richard Erwin Kinzer
was bom in Crabtree, OR in
1935 to Ruby and Vilas Kin
zer. Richard started his educa
tion at the Rhea Creek School,
a one room school house in
Heppner. His family later
moved to Condon, OR when
he was in the fourth Grade and
he completed his schooling
there. Richard enlisted in the
U.S. Army in 1959 and spent
2 Vi years in the Transporta
tion Unit in Germany until he
was honorably discharged. He
married Klara Schumacher,
a pretty little German girl, in
1961.
After his stint in
the service he came back to
Condon and worked for Art
Dalzell for a couple of years,
then went to work on Swede
Carlson’s ranch for 15 years.
In the winter of 1978, Richard
started working for Bob Ma
honey on the HM Ranch, and
after 34 years, is still part of
the HM family.
Richard’s wife Klara
also worked for the HM Ranch
for many years. Richard and
Klara have two sons, Jim Kin
zer who lives in Portland, OR
and Bobby, who is deceased.
Richard has been a
member of the Wrangler’s
Riding Club, Willow Creek
Grange and is still an active
member of BPOE # 358.
When Richard was
young, he competed in the
bareback riding event at the
rodeos. He says “I never made
any money doing this, but had
a lot of fun.” In his later years
he competed in both the team
roping and calf roping events.
Richard loved the ranch rop-
ings at the Murray’s, Dough
erty’s, Steagall’s, Evans’ and
Mahoney’s.
“These family rop-
ings were so much fun, just
a good time with potlucks af
terwards.” Richard also com
peted for the Morrow County
Amateur Calf Roping Saddle
for many years winning sec
ond one year and third an
other. Richard said “Then the
toughs came and I retired.”
This quiet, quick wit-
ted, hard working behind the
scenes is loved by everyone
who has had the pleasure to
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A Big Thanks to our
Morrow County Fair Sponsors
2012 GOLD SPONSORS
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MURRAY’S DRUG
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MORROW, GILLIAM & WHEELER COUNTIES
SWEENEY MORTUARY
Patrick W. Sweeney
Funeral Director
Phone: 676-9600
320 E. Matlock
Heppner, Oregon 97836
Phone: 384-2001
216 S. Main
Condon, Oregon 97823
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2012 Sponsors
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Les Schwab, MCGG, RDO, Umatilla Electric, Wheatlanc
Insurance, W heatridge Wind Energy, LLC,
Wildhorse Resort & Casino
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Richard Kinzer
know him. At the rodeos he
was kind of hard to catch up
with because he was either
helping load rough stock in
the chutes or at the other end
of the arena sorting the calves
so they were in the right order
for the ropers. Richard also
worked the grounds before the
Wrangler Playdays and then
just did whatever needed to
be done. Richard was award
ed an “Appreciation Award”
for his hard work from the
Morrow County Rodeo Com
mittee in 1979. Even though
Richard doesn’t work behind
the scenes anymore, he is an
avid spectator. He never miss
es a parade or the Morrow
County Rodeoand still gets a
big kick out of watching the
young cowboys and cowgirls
compete. Richard says, “They
are our future and I really en
joy watching them have fun.”
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