• Only Buddy Williams
Known as "the rope man" in the Newsgram reading area, Buddy Williams was also a jockey for racehorses in another lifetime. When the KDH Foundation had their recent Jeans and Gems fundraiser, the theme was Kiowa's Kentucky Derby – Buddy and his wife Donna dug out his jockey garb, pictures and more and displayed it at Jeans and Gems.
When Buddy was a little boy in Peru, Kansas, his dad trained mules for the U.S. Army.
"There were always mules and horses around," he recalled.
"I was told Buddy started walking hot horses to cool them down," Donna said and added, "Buddy was little and strong and wh...
Reader Comments(0)