Tommy Priour

Tommy Priour of Kerrville, passed away on August 30, 2016 at home surrounded by his family. Tommy was born in Hunt, TX on June 21, 1934 to Emma Jane Sublett Priour and Thomas Franklin Priour. Tommy was a 4th generation Kerr County native. He married Jane Elizabeth Poole, his high school sweetheart, on June 21, 1952 in Kerrville, TX. They had been married for 64 years.\r\n \r\nTommy lived on the family ranch on the Divide until he started school at Ingram Elementary before attending Tivy High School in Kerrville. He graduated from Tivy in 1952.\r\n \r\nHe was a rancher all his life. He broke horses at the age of 14. He raised registered Holsteins and registered Angora goats, winning many trophies in livestock shows around the state. He worked for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department running deer counts in central Texas. He was one of the first professional game guides for the YO Ranch. He trapped, bought and sold exotic game all over the United States. He even took an airplane load of elk to Korea and hunted jaguars in Mexico with Roy Rogers.\r\n \r\nTommy and Janey produced amateur and college rodeos for 25 years throughout Texas. He was one of the first to breed bucking bulls, leasing his outstanding set of bucking bulls to professional rodeo producers and taking the bulls to Cheyenne, WY and El Paso, TX. After he retired from the rodeo business, he raised show lambs for boys and girls to show at junior livestock shows throughout Texas and New Mexico. He was involved in the Hill Country District Junior Livestock Show Association for over 50 years, showing livestock while he was in school, becoming a junior director at age 18 and later serving as a director. The 1991 show was dedicated to him.\r\n \r\nHe received many awards from the HCDJLSA, Kerr County FFA and Edwards County Junior Livestock Show Assn. The last belt buckle he received along with a "Rodeo Ring of Honor" award was in 2015 for producing rodeos throughout south central Texas from the South Central Texas Rodeo Association.\r\n \r\nTommy was preceded in death by his parents, and his sister, Lola Priour Reed\r\n \r\nTommy is survived by his wife, Janey Priour; three children: Becky Priour and Joe Sanders, Kyle and Judy Priour and John and Duffy Priour; seven grand-children: Doug and Tracy Fossler of Lucas, TX; Frank and Kaori Fossler of Kumamoto, Japan; Whitney and Jef Fair of Austin, TX; Paige and Joseph Blalock of Austin, TX; Taylor and Jon Mayhall of Kerrville; Trey and Hannah Priour of Blanco, TX; and Mitchell Priour of College Station, TX; twelve great-grandchildren: Sydney, Reilly and Bailey Mayhall; Rio, Leia and Hugo Fossler; Trygg and Liesl Fossler, Harrison and Meredith Fair, and Emma Grace and Tinley Faith Priour; and great-grandson Blalock due in October - as well as many other family members and longtime friends.\r\n \r\nMemorial service will be Sunday, September 11 at 2 p.m. at Lazy Hills Guest Ranch, 375 Henderson Branch Road, Ingram. Please dress casually. Private burial services will be held at Nichols Cemetery.\r\n \r\nHonorary pallbearers will be his seven grandchildren, nephew Buddy Reed, Bill Cantwell, Craig Martin, Joey Gutierrez, Jimmy Strube, and Dennis Brown.\r\n \r\nMemorials may be made to the Hill Country District Junior Livestock Show Association Scholarship Fund or Peterson Hospice.\r\n \r\nThe family wishes to thank Dr. John Davis and Family Practice, Peterson Hospice and his nurse and friend, Nicole.