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BAKER ANGUS RANCH BULL SALE

Vale, Ore. • Feb. 27, 2021 Sale Managed by Matt Macfarlane Marketing Col. Rick Machado 1147 Angus bulls................................................................................$5,049 20 commercial females.....................................................................$1,242

BUCHANAN ANGUS RANCH BULL SALE

with Country Inn Cattle and Santos Angus Klamath Falls, Ore. • Feb. 28, 2021 Col. C.D. “Butch” Booker 59 Angus bulls.....................................................................................$5,473 13 commercial open heifers ...........................................................$2,123

COLYER HEREFORD AND ANGUS PRODUCTION SALE

Bruneau, Idaho • Feb . 22, 2021 Col. C.D. “Butch” Booker and Col. Kyle Colyer 127 Hereford bulls.............................................................................$7,363 71 Angus bulls.....................................................................................$6,161 34 Hereford heifers...........................................................................$3,463 15 Angus heifers.................................................................................$3,646 1 choice flush ....................................................................................$10,500

LORENZEN RED ANGUS BULL SALE Madras, Ore. • Feb. 25, 2021

Col. Trent Stewart 151 Red Angus and composite bulls...........................................$5,503

BAR 6 CHAROLAIS COWMAN’S KIND BULL SALE

with Wilson Cattle and Hay Terrebonne, Ore. • Feb. 26, 2021 Col. Dennis Metzger 93 Charolais bulls...............................................................................$4,092

THOMAS ANGUS RANCH

Baker City, Ore. • March 2, 2021 Sale Managed by Cotton & Associatew Col. Rick Machado and Col. Trent Stewart 101 fall yearling Angus bulls.....................................................$5,673 84 spring yearling Angus bulls................................................$4,,860 21 fall bred heifers........................................................................$3,775

HARRELL HEREFORD RANCH 42ND ANNIVERSARY SALE

Baker City, Ore. • March 1, 2021 Sale Managed by United Livestock Brokers Col. C.D. “Butch” Booker and Col. Rick Machado 104 yearling bulls...........................................................................$6,074 32 two-year-old bulls...................................................................$4,431 33 registered heifers.....................................................................$2,689 30 commercial heifers..................................................................$1,475 6 geldings......................................................................................$10,750 11 fillies.............................................................................................$9,477 1 broodmare................................................................................$13,750

CORSAIR ANGUS RANCH

Ione, Ore. • March 7, 2021 Sale Managed by Matt Macfarlane Marketing Col. Trent Stewart 37Angus bulls...............................................................................$3,714 20 Angus females........................................................................$2,045

SPRING COVE RANCH BULL SALE

Idaho Falls, Idaho • March 8, 2021 Col. Rick Machado 160 Angus bulls...........................................................................$6,701 45 registered yearling heifers....................................................$4,212 15 commercial open heifers ....................................................$1,846

ROMANS RANCHES CHAROLAIS BULL SALE

Westfall, Ore. • March 19, 2021 Col. Dennis Metzger 118 Charolais bulls....................................................................$4,1629

ROLLIN ROCK GENETIC PARTNERS BULL SALE

Pilot Rock, Ore • March 12, 2021 Col. Joe Goggins and Roger Jacobs 133 Angus bulls............................................................................$5,530 17 Hereford bulls.........................................................................$3,361

RIVERBEND RANCH BULL SALE

Idaho Falls, Idaho • March 13, 2021 Col. Rick Machado and Col. Trent Stewart 422 Angus bulls............................................................................$7,812

SNYDER LIVESTOCK

21st Bulls for the 21st Century Yerington, Nev. • March 15, 2021 Col. John Rodgers & Col. Eric Duarte 91 total bulls..................................................................................$4,907

WARD RANCHES BULL SALE

with Dal Porto Livestock and Rancho Casino Angus Gardnerville, Nev. • March 20, 2021 Col. Eric Duarte 67 Angus bulls..............................................................................$4,652

IN MEMORY

Tom McCord

Thomas Ray McCord was born March 25, 1928 to Eleanor McCord and Lynn McCord in Parlier. Tom passed away February 24, Fairview, Tenn. Tom attended Reedley High School before joining the Merchant Marines at the age of 16 (Tom persuaded the recruiter he was of legal age). After two years with the Merchant Marines during WWII Tom joined the United States Marine Corps and served two years, proudly, on the U.S.S. Boxer.

After completing service, he went on to Fresno State, studying animal science. There he met the love of his life, Myra Anne Wyre. They married in 1952 and moved to Bonsall, where Tom began his career managing cattle at Pala Rey Hereford Ranch from 1952 to 1958. From there Tom went back to Fresno State to manage its beef unit from 1958 to 1969. Tom absolutely delighted in developing the skills and characters of many students that went on to enjoy wonderful lives and careers.

Tom left Fresno State to join the American Hereford Association, based in Kansas City, as the Western Field Representative. In addition to helping Hereford breeders make sound bloodline decisions, Tom also assisted breeders with their promotion efforts by helping create advertising and public relations promos that were published in the Hereford Journal. Tom covered the breeders in the western states of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. One of his most enjoyable endeavors was working with John Ascuaga in developing and managing the Nugget Bull sale held every year at the John Ascuaga Nugget Casino in Sparks, Nev. Tom thoroughly enjoyed this event as it attracted many breeders, and Tom liked talking to them all. Tom retired from the Association in 1989.

His hobbies included wood working and above all else, fishing. He was always thinking of the next place in Alaska, Canada or most anywhere he could cast a line. When he hooked one he would literally become giddy like a young boy. That said, perhaps his favorite trip did not involve fishing. He traveled to Botswana and toured the country with his near lifelong friends, Bob and Doreen McColaugh. He literally beamed when talking about that trip, showing the photos taken there.

Tom was preceded in death by his parents, Eleanor and Lynn McCord. He is survived by his wife, Myra, of 69 years; sons Thomas Patrick and his wife Therese; Terry and his wife Jennifer; daughter Patricia Eileen Gehrls and her husband Jerry; grandchildren Brandy Reints and her husband Joel, Rebecca Mlenar and her husband Brett, Will McCord and his wife Mandy, Sarah Hawkins and her husband Ben, Andrea McCord, Sean Bohrman and his wife Chereis, Shelley Gehrls and her husband Ralph, Nicolas Gehrls and eleven great grandchildren. He was also preceded in death and is survived by more friends than can be included here. But a special thanks goes to John and Patsy Edwards, Suzanne Dean for all they did, almost daily, while encouraging and supporting Tom and Myra as Tom’s health deteriorated.

No service will be held, however, he was given the high honor of having his body draped with the American flag as he was taken away. For Tom, he could not have asked for more. As such, in lieu of flowers, please send a donation to the charity of your choice in his honor.

Harry Habib, a wellknown cattleman in the Central Valley passed away on Tuesday, March 9 at the age of 93. Harry started in the cattle business when he was 17 years old and attended his last sale one week before his passing. His love and dedication to his work and family will forever be remembered. Harry and his brother Harold owned the Hanford Meat Company from 19741985. In 1985, Harry married Marian, his wife of 35 years. In 2017 at the age of 90, Harry was named the Fresno-Kings Cattleman’s, Cattleman of the Year.

He is survived by his wife Marian, his sons Sam and Dan Habib, his stepchildren; Don and Sina Poladian, Diane and the late Rodney Melikian and Karen and Jeff Melikian; his 11 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Private services will be held for the Family. The Family suggests remembrances be sent to: Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church, 2226 Ventura Ave, Fresno, CA 93721.

Harry Habib

St George, Utah. June 1965. A hot summer day,temperature 110. His name was “Bar O.” A big, greygelding saddle bronc horse. Loaded in the chute, a handsome 20-year-old college kid looked down on his bronc. He nodded and they opened the gate. It was that day that Richard Rudnick won the first go-around of the 1965 College National Finals. It was the finest ride he ever made and it was against some fellow competitors who would later become world champion saddle bronc riders. This was one of Richard’s proudest moments in the rodeo arena.

Richard was born on June 3, 1945 to Marcia and Marcus Rudnick in Bakersfield. He was the oldest of 11 children and grew up in a cattle ranching family. His father Marcus was a big influence in his life. He said his father taught him“hard work and a lot of go.” Richard grew up riding and working cattle at the various family ranches and feedlots in California and Arizona. It was Les Jenkins, however, that Richard looked up to as a true cowboy. He was the cow boss at the Onyx Ranch when Richard was a young kid. Richard thought he was “one of the best cowboys that he’d ever known” and was very influential in Richard’s training when he was young. Richard was a third generation California cattle rancher and being a cowboy was the favorite part of his career. He and his wife Sandy (Kearney) were married for 53 years and were together since he was 17 years old attending Bakersfield High School.

He graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1967 with an Agricultural Business major with an emphasis in Farm and Ranch Management. He participated on the rodeo team riding saddle broncs and team roping. Together with Sandy, Richard raised horses and ran cattle on the Onyx Ranch in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains for 40 years. Richard was a founding partner of Cholla Livestock in 1972. He ran 12,000 cows on the Diamond A and Double O Ranch. The Diamond A Ranch is the largest ranch in Arizona consisting of 750,000 acres on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon. At one time he was the largest livestock operator in the state of Arizona with his partner from 1972 to 1997.

He owned and operated Kern Valley Meat Packing Company in Bakersfield from 1976 to 1995. He served as the president of the Rancheros Visitadores (RV) from 2008-2010. He always looked forward to seeing his friends at the ride each year in May and competing in all the horse events. He cherished his good friends and especially his camp mates from Los Flojos. He continues to be the only man in the history of the RV to win the 1 man/1 horse all-around cowboy three times. He won the O’Brian trophy for “Outstanding Horseman” in 1980, 1982 and 1989 and the Harold Pauley trophy for “Ranchero of the Year” in 2010. He was a five-time winner of the “Best Horseman” award. For years Richard served on the Bureau of Land Management’s California Desert Multiple Use Advisory Board representing livestock grazing on public lands. He served on the Kern County Cattleman’s Association Board of Directors and the California Beef Council. He was also on the Harry Jackson Art Council in Cody, Wyo.

As a young boy riding and gathering cattle on the desert, Richard said he would look up into the sky and see airplanes and jet trails overhead. Richard received his pilot’s license in 1968. He achieved ratings insingle, multi-engine and instrument. He earned his rating to fly seaplanes in Seattle, Wash. and he even flew a jet simulator with his son, Chad, an airline captain who Richard taught to fly. He was an accomplished bush pilot and could fly an airplane as if it were part of him. His favorite airplane was the Cessna 185 tail dragger (bush plane). He was known for showing up and landing on a cow trail and taxiing right up to the corrals to work his cattle for the day. You would always know Richard was near when in the distance you could hear the crack of the propeller as he flew over the ranch and cowboy crew making sure the landing strip was clear. As he got out of the airplane he would grab his saddle, bridle and spurs; get on his horse, then sort the cows and ship the steers. He always said. “never fly an airplane with your spurs on.” He accumulated over 7,500 hours of total flight time with many trips to their summer house on Crane Island in the San Juan Islands.

He particularly enjoyed helping and mentoring young people to become horseman and cowboys. These young kids came from Israel, Australia, Denmark, England and Spain to work on the ranches and learn the cowboy way. For many years Richard donated colts to Cal Poly for their colt classes. He was always grateful to his cowboys and employees who returned the favor in lifelong loyalty to him. He and Sandy packed horses with their family into the Golden Trout Wilderness on many pack trips in the summertime. One memorable pack trip began at Soda Flat to the headwaters of the Kern River. Eventually reaching Crabtree Meadow at the base of Mount Whitney. Two families and 38 horses for almost three weeks. Horseback, pack string in hand with a huge smileon his face, Richard was never happier than in the mountains. He ran cattle in the Sierras on grazing leases for many years. The cow camp in Manter Meadow was one of his favorites. In 2006, Richard and his son Jack and friends, rode 80 miles of the John Muirtrail. Beginning at Yosemite Valley and ending at Reds Meadow, they completed a challenging yet rewarding 10-day pack trip.

Richard passed away peacefully at his home with his family by his side in Bakersfield on Jan. 13. He was 75 years old. He died from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Richard is survied by his wife Sandy, his son Charles, daughter Jane and son Jack; his son-in-law Scott Larrabee and daughter-in-law Allison. His seven grandchildren Collin, Cooper, Holly, Madelyn and Russell Rudnick and Lily and Lauren Larrabee. His mother Marcia Rudnick and 10 sisters and brothers. His brother and sister-in-law, Vinton and Mimi Sommerville and family. A celebration of life will be held at a future date when it is safe to gather. Donations can be made to the Cal Poly Equine Unit. We know that Richard is heading off into his beloved high country riding his best horse Vinniegaru.