ICYMI: Gary Williams, longtime general manager of the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros and a key figure in the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association for a quarter-century, died Sunday at the Tucson Medical Center after suffering a stroke. He was 73. Read more here:
Greg Hansen Gary Williams, longtime general manager of the La Fiesta de los Vaqueros and a key figure in the Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association for a quarter-century, died Sunday at the Tucson Medical Center after suffering a stroke. He was 73.
A 1967 graduate of Rincon High School, Williams earned a business degree from the University of Arizona, but his love of being a cowboy and the rodeo kept him in Tucson. He started attending rodeo as a child because his father, Gene, played in a Western band that performed during the rodeo. He got his first horse at age 4, and ultimately became a bull rider.
During the time he was volunteering with the Rodeo Committee, he was director of human resources at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. He described his long tenure on the Tucson Rodeo Committee as “a wonderful life.” Williams was inducted into the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
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