b"NO HORSING AROUND; REAL DEAL SAVINGS!STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH!BUYER CREDIT UP TO A COWBOY $ 0010,000RESTS IN HEAVEN Redeemable at close of escrow when purchasing a brand-new home and using Fred &BOB BOBBY FELKINS Pat Bucina, licensed realtors Fred & Patof Home Smart, as your buyer 9/15/19577/4/2021 Are Myagents in the transaction. Realtors! Based on 1% of base purchase price andMeB ob (Bobby) Felkins, 63 of Florence, AZ passedparticipating builder paying 3% Buyer BrokerToo!!!away peacefully from a short illness on July 4,Commission. Buyer credit must be used for 2021, with his wife of 14 years by his side. Bobclosing costs, loan costs or title fees.loved his ranch and arena and would spend hours atIMPORTANT:Our representation costs you the barn daily, waiting for friends to show up to ropenothing and could save you plentyevery night unless he was at a roping or producingMost New Home Builders areof money. Check us outthis is one. He loved his cattle and would sort and resortparticipating Valleywide butnot our first rodeo! constantly and knew every one of them. Bob was aWe have 44 REQUIRES buyer and agent toyears real estate experience as a true rancher, buying, selling, and leasing cattle andbe together on the first visithusband/wife team.making rope horses. to their sales office.He was born September 15, 1957, to Ken Felkins andITS A REAL ZOO Joy Hamilton Felkins in Mesa, AZ. He is survivedOUT THERE!by his wife Karen Felkins, his children Chet Felkins,Allow us to register you with a builder and well Nicole, and husband Derik Diaz, and Journey Davis and husband John Rooney.enter you into a drawing to Bobby loved his two grandkids Beau and Oaklee Mae and was known as Papa. win a year membershipfor 2 to the Wildlife Bob knew from a very young age what he was going to be and that was a cowboy.Zoo & Aquarium.At seven he would take his moms bath mat and use it to ride to friend's houses in Chandler and rope. He had a few odd jobs throughout his life but they were veryFRED & PAT BUCINAshort-lived. At 16 he decided he was going to Cheyenne to rodeo, so he hitchhiked623-203-3092 & 623-332-8905across the country to go. Shortly after that, he started competing in riding barebackfred.bucina@yahoo.comhorses. Bob made the Turquoise Circuit in 1984, Mountain States Finals in 1987, and Wilderness Circuit Finals in 1988, all in bareback riding. His highlights were being the featured cowboy at the Jackson Hole Rodeo, riding the featured bareback horse for President George H. W. Bush in 1987, and winning the Jackson Hole Rodeo that year. He started team roping after bareback horses where he also was a winner. Bob was a regular fixture at ropings including the WSTR VII Finale and he ended up 8th after coming back as high call in the #10 with Tombo Kaufman. Bob had so many friends and family that supported him throughout his rodeo years. He was a very lucky man and will be greatly missed.Private family burial services were held to lay this wonderful man to rest. A Celebration of Life Roping was held on August 22, 2021, at Linden Valley Arena in Show Low, AZ for all to come and celebrate. CONTACT US ANYTIME!ArizonaRealCountryMagazine@gmail.comor by phone at 602-254-6644ArizonaRealCountry.com September 2021 43"