The Team Roping Journal

KEEPING ON

Kay Keller of Rock Springs, Wyoming, arranged a surprise party on a Friday this summer for her husband John’s 90th birthday.

“But then she called me and said, ‘Clay, we’re going to have to change the day of the party now,” recalled their son, Clay Keller. “And I said, ‘Why, Mom?’ And she said, ‘Because your dad’s entered twice at the amateur rodeo that night in Green River!’”

Some things never change. Long before

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