LIFE & TIMES


Maryland Will Miss... Ron Vogel, president of the Maryland Joust-


ing Tournament Association since 2016, died October 15, at the age of 72 after a three year battle with cancer. After a rewarding career as a Mercedes Benz mechanic, Ron became a farrier in 2002 and continued to be concerned for the horses in his care and their owners until his death.


Francis Dean Boudreau died on November


10. He was 60. Born in Minnesota, Boudreau was a self-employed farrier and also trained horses at his small farm in Upperco.


Robert John Bowersox of North East died


on November 14 at the age of 48. Born in Pennsylvania, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. After leav- ing the Marines, he became a master HVAC Mechanic. Bowersox and his wife, Karen Ann, founded Major League Eventing, an indepen- dent marketing group aimed at promoting the sport of Eventing. He also produced a podcast of the same name.


Kay Frances Meredith of North Carolina


died on November 14 at the age of 86. Born in West Virginia, she spent most of her life in Ra- leigh, North Carolina and represented the U.S. at the international level in Dressage. She was the 1982 National Dressage Grand Prix cham- pion and in 1979 was named American Horse Show Association Horsewoman of the Year. Meredith was a founding member of the U.S. Dressage Federation and was USDF’s second vice president before serving as president from 1977 to 1982. Meredith was inducted into


the USDF Hall of Fame in 2004. Meredith’s top horse, Domino, was found for her in Sweden by


Col. Bengt


Ljungquist, with whom she had trained at the Potomac Horse Center. Domino was imported to Linda Zang’s Idlewilde Farm in Davidson- ville. Meredith would travel from her West Virginia home to Idlewilde to train with Ljungquist, who was at the time the US Equestrian team dressage coach. Meredith and Domino competed very successfully in the US and Europe. He retired from his competitive career and lived out his days at Idlewilde, in a fi eld with Zang’s renowned Fellow Traveler.


Amy Louise Parsons of Virginia died on


November 14 at the age of 61 from pancreatic cancer, She was born San Jose, California, but spent the last 10 years competing in eventing and dressage in the Mid-Atlantic area. She also volunteered at many horse trials and dressage shows in Maryland. Parsons started riding when she was 12 years


old. She also excelled at skiing and was part of the Montana State University ski team. In ad- dition, Parsons had a love for fl ying airplanes and earned her Private Pilot license in just 21 days. T is passion led her to transfer to Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University and eventually a career as a Captain with United Airlines. Parsons met her husband Wayne while at-


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tending fl ight school. He also went on to be a Cap- tain for United and they both fl ew planes around the world until she retired at age 50 to get back into the horse world. T e couple moved to Virginia where Parsons started competed in eventing and dressage, win- ning and placing in several Regional Championships, as well as earning awards from the U.S. Eventing As- sociation. She earned her


U.S. Dressage Federation Bronze Medal on her rescued T oroughbred mare, Queen of Spades.


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