Funeral services for Ray Edwin Adsit, 25, of Hardin called “cowboy’s cowboy”by friends will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Bullis Chapel in Hardin. Burial will be in the Custer National Cemetery.

He died in a Billings Hospital Saturday.

Mr. Adsit was admitted to the hospital May 14 with head injuries he sustained when thrown from a horse on the Hardin rodeo grounds. In making a practice bulldogging run, his mount collided with a steer and he was pitched from the saddle.

From the time of his admission to the hospital, he was listed in critical condition with a severe intereranial hemorrhage.

A rodeo planned for the “cowboy’s cowboy” will now become a tribute. The rodeo, to begin at 2 p.m. Sunday in the rodeo grounds where Mr. Adsit was injured, was scheduled by the Hardin Riding and Robing Club and the Big Horn County Licensed Beverage Dealers. Assn. for his two daughters, Cynthia Ray, 3, and Meladee Ann, 2.

Their mother, the former Shirley Ann Lund, to whom Mr. Adsit was married Dec. 13, 1953, died last September.

The rodeo program will feature a match bronc riding contest between Clinton Small of Kirby and Walt Secrest of Hardin. The riders will compete for a $500 purse. Calf roping, team roping, barrel races and ribbon roping are also scheduled.

Secrest will be a pallbearer at the funeral.

Mr. Adsit was affiliated with the Hardin Evangelical and Reformed Lutheran Church. He entered in the Army in Butte in 1953, served with the 16th Signal Battalion and received an honorable discharge at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. In 1955.

He played the guitar and sang for many dances in Big Horn county.

Mr. Adsit was born in Ranchester, Wyo, June 28, 1932, and was graduated from Sheridan Wyo. High School. He lived most of his life in Bgi Horn county.

Mr. Adsit is survived by his daughters; a brother, Glenn Adsit of Kirby, and three sisters, Mrs Walter Pilch of Sheridan, Wyo, Mrs. Donald Randall of Kirby, and Mrs. R. T. Henry of Laural.

Billings Gazette �" May 25, 1958.