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from 2023 April Shorthorn Country

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Farewells

Deloris Mae Bruns was born in Council Bluffs, IA to Lloyd and Erma Bauerkemper. The family moved to South Omaha when she was a child. She graduated from South High in 1955. She married Robert Bruns Jr. in 1956. Together they had four children. They lived on a farm outside of Blair, NE until later moving to Blair where she worked in the shipping department of Artex. She moved back to Omaha in 1980 after her divorce and worked for American Shorthorn as a bookkeeper for over 25 years.

She enjoyed camping trips to Memphis State Park with all her family. She also looked forward to yearly trips renting cabins in various states with her children and grandchildren. The Black Hills of South Dakota was her favorite and she went yearly with family to visit. Going to keno and the casinos of Council Bluffs with family and friends was a hobby.

Deloris is survived by children: Cheryl (Mike) Reida, Traci (Terry) Murphy, and Gary Bruns; grandchildren: Kelley, Michelle, Dominic, Tim, Jadee, and Kristy; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, sisters, and son, Robert Bruns III.

Robert Dean “Bob” Miller, age 83 of Fordville, North Dakota died Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at First Care Health Center of Park River, ND.

Bob was born June 30, 1939 in Grafton, ND, the son of Dean and Eleanor (Trzcinski) Miller. He grew up on the family farm, attending country school, then 7th and 8th grades in Fordville, and then graduated from Walsh County Agriculture School with the class of 1958. He played football for the Aggies, earning the nickname “The Crusher”. Bob was active in 4H, music, FFA: holding a state officer position and singing in the national FFA chorus. He graduated from NDSU with both an animal science and history degree. While at NDSU, he played freshman football, was a member of the Saddle & Sirloin Club, on livestock judging teams, and showed in the Little International.

Bob married Rose Lynne Beetz in 1961 in East Grand Forks, MN. They lived on the family farm, where they raised four children and farmed with his father Dean and brother Jim. After family, Bob’s greatest joy was raising registered shorthorn cattle. He loved the red, white, and Roans. There were not many that were truer to the shorthorn breed.

He was a member of the American Shorthorn Association, ND Shorthorn Association, ND Stockman’s Association, and founded the ND Shorthorn News with help from the Ness Press Tri County Sun of Fordville. Bob enjoyed many years of the family showing cattle of the ND Winter Show and the National Western in Denver, CO. He was honored with “Builder of the Breed” in 1977, “Man of the Year” in 1986, and in 1999, ND Winter Show Appreciation Award. Bob was also a member of First Presbyterian Church of Fordville.

Bob was a stubborn, hardworking, honest man who instilled strong work ethic and love of the land in his family.

He enjoyed gardening, dancing the polka, and early rock and roll. He loved talking politics and history. Following his stroke in 2021, he was happy to be able to be home, but disappointed he couldn’t be helping on the farm.

Bob is survived by his wife of 62 years, Rose Lynne, daughters Roberta Francis (Gene) of Adams, ND and Lisa Montgomery, New York, NY; son Philip (Marilyn), Devils Lake, ND; daughter-in-law Joan Miller Swartz (Jarrett); brother Jim (Joan), sister Linda Larson (Gary), sisters and brothers-inlaw: Daphne (Bob) Sobolik and Ann (Dennis) Molenaar; grandchildren: Crosley Zahradka, Riley Francis, Phoebe Francis, Maris Miller, and Emmitt Miller; great grandchildren: Kellen Zahradka and Florence Silewski and many nieces and nephews also survive. He was preceded in death by his parents, mother and father-in-law, brother Mike, beloved son Ian, and son-in-law, Marvin Montgomery.

Richard ‘Ric’ D. Hoyt, age 76, of Grove, Oklahoma passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 12, 2023. Ric was born on March 1, 1947 in Sacramento, California to Walter and Marian (Blair) Hoyt Jr. He attended Elk Grove High School, graduating with the class of 1964. He then attended Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, earning a degree in Animal Science.

Ric married his soul mate, Judy Ann Catlett, on July 12, 1968, in Elk Grove, California. They eventually made their home in Burns, Oregon.

Ric was a cattle rancher and became an icon in the cattle industry. He was a past President of the American Shorthorn Association, and proudly served on the Board of the National Cattlemen’s Association, as well as serving as a past Chairman of the NCA Political Action Committee. He was a respected livestock judge and traveled all over the world, including Australia, Argentina and Canada, just to name a few. He, with his brothers and sister, were once the nations’ largest producers of Registered Shorthorn Cattle. Later in life he purchased and ran the Intermountain Livestock auction yard in La Grande, Oregon.

He and Judy “retired” in 2017 and relocated to Grove, Oklahoma where he obtained his Realtor License and worked with Solid Rock Realtors. In addition to his extensive resume as a cattleman, he was a member of the Elks Lodge and the Cowboy Junction Church in Vinita. He was larger than life, not only in stature, but also in personality. He loved his family and was the best “Dad and Poppy in the world,” always just a phone call away when one of them needed his encyclopedic knowledge. If there were toddlers around, you can be sure Ric was carrying them around explaining life’s mysteries to them. Ric made friends of everyone, forgot no one, and no matter where on earth he traveled, he was sure to run into someone he knew, it was uncanny.

Ric was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Jay and Bob Hoyt, and sister Ann Hoyt. Left to cherish his memory, his wife Judy; children Cyndilin Hoyt of Grove, Kendra Gillette and husband Sweeny of Vinita, Richard Hoyt Jr. and wife Michelle of Gainesville, New York, and Preston Hoyt and wife Charissa of Rogers, Arkansas; grandchildren Payton, Madison, Ashley, Blair, Louie, Keisha, Casey, Sammy, Olivia, Sterling, Mara, Richard III, Miranda, Bailey, Anthony, Landien, Josh and Brylen; great-grandchildren Brynlee, Faith, Jax, Willow, Jasper, Pepper, Iva, Haelyn, Tate, Sunnie, Emma, Violet and Quinn; he is also survived by his brothers Blair (Jan), Seth (Barbara), Steve (Vicki), Jeff (Robin), and sister Jana (Andy) Root; as well as many friends and extended family.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Cowboy Junction Church 27544 S 4380 Rd, Vinita, Ok 74301 or to Afton School FFA program, 410 S Main St, Afton, Ok 74331.

New Rule for Milking Shorthorn/Lincoln Red Dual Registration Update for DNA Testing

As of July 1, 2023, all Milking Shorthorn and Lincoln Red cattle that are to be brought into the American Shorthorn Association herd book as dual registered animals must be tested as an AI sire or donor dam prior to herd book acceptance, due to the lack of information available in their online registries.

Starting July 1, 2023, all animals tested through the American Shorthorn Association must have a registration or recorded number to be accepted for testing. This is only a slight adjustment to the current rule, which applies to samples sent directly to the lab. This rule adjustment includes any animal tested – whether the samples are sent directly to the lab or to the ASA office for pre-processing. Also starting July 1, 2023, a manual processing fee will also be incurred for those samples sent to the office for preprocessing. We are trying to encourage breeders to send their samples directly to Neogen, once their DNA submission form is approved and in their hands. If there is an error in the registry holding your animal up from being pushed through as registered, you would need to go the ‘recorded number’ route. In the birth entry screen, you can un-check the ‘Register?” box, re-validate, and commit your animal to the registry as recorded to receive that ‘U’ recorded number.