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75-mile trail drive was similar to fact, competed in
those in the 1860s-1880s except for rodeos, although
the considerable difference in the Barbara often
size of the herd. At roundup time, volunteered in the
the neighbors all came together to Association. The Independent Living H Garden Homes
INDEPENDENT LIVING, ASSISTED LIVING
help Bob and Cornelia and their Tech yearbook Assisted Living H Memory Care
& MEMORY CARE COMMUNITY
young daughters. La Ventana had
a full-page photo
The Hexts had bought a small house of her after she
in Reserve, and their mother moved was crowned
into town for the girls’ elementary Queen of the
and junior high years. But they 1953 Texas Tech
stayed at the ranch during their Rodeo. She was
high school years and traveled the also the Queen A Touch of Luxury. . .
forty miles there and back each of the Cowboys
school day. The Saturday Evening Christmas Combined with West Texas Friendliness!
Post, a top national magazine of Ball, which
that time, even ran a feature story was sponsored
about the schools in their area, and each year by Bring this ad in for a free lunch with
the girls were a featured part of it. the Tech Rodeo tour at the Club at Raider Ranch
They rode three different vehicles Association.
on the forty-mile trip. The first one
was their ranch Jeep, from their After graduation 806-368-6565
house to the last gate of their outside from Tech,
ranch fence, where they boarded Barbara went raiderranch.com
a school bus. They rode it for the home to the ranch
twenty miles into Apache Creek. in New Mexico 6548 43rd Street, Lubbock, Texas 79407
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remaining twenty miles to Reserve. a ranchhand.
The Post article indicated that they But after a year,
spent more time coming and going Brownfield High Florida; and Todd and wife, Lena,
to school each day, in the three School hired the young woman of Lubbock; and four grandchildren:
different vehicles, than they did in as their “Foods and Nutrition” Travis and Taylor, Cameron and
school itself. And when they got teacher. A young man named Alvin Juliann.
home, the real work began, because Davis got wind of her hiring. He
they were the cowboys on the Hext remembered the pretty cowgirl Since they married in 1955, Barbara
Ranch. from the Tech rodeo days, when has been right by Alvin’s side,
he had been President of the Tech helping him in all of his many
Barbara was scheduled to graduate Rodeo Association and on its Board activities and endeavors, but she
from Reserve High School in 1949, of Directors. He was “nearly sitting has never wanted to take credit or
but younger sister Evelyn took extra on her doorstep” be honored. However, without her,
courses each year of high school, so when she arrived Alvin could not
they could both graduate at the same in Brownfield, have accomplished
time. After their joint graduation, and they everything he has.
Barbara and Evelyn left to go to quickly became He wrote that
college at their mother’s alma mater, reacquainted. Alvin sentiment in a poem,
Texas Tech. Their grandmother was knew right away and it is just as true
still living in Lubbock, so it was a that she was the one today as it was when
great situation for them. for him. They were he wrote it.
married in Reserve,
They immediately joined the Tech New Mexico on Alvin and Barbara
Rodeo Association, which was July 28, 1955. They are founders of the
the largest student organization have three children: National Cowboy
on campus at the time. Barbara Bob and wife, Lee, Symposium &
remembered someone asking if they of Houston; Debbie Celebration in
rode barrels (a rodeo event). Evelyn and husband, Mike, Lubbock. The idea
responded, “No, we rode horses of Jacksonville, for a NCSC had
and worked cattle.” They never, in been born a couple

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