ormiston
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Registered: Aug 2011
Location: South Central Oklahoma
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Johnny Knowles
Johnny was a 47 year server as a BBCHA Board Member, and was a past president of the association. He lived in Huntsville, TX.
If you ever hunted with him, you would remember him as a "high stepper." I ranked him up there with Bus Thompson and Delma Smith for hard going in the woods. Johnny didn't like to ride a mule, but he could stay up....with him walking and everybody else riding.
Bill Foster wrote a nice article about Johnny in the 2014 BBCHA Historical Blue Book. Johnny placed a full page ad in the 2015 book featuring Knowles Little Butch (circa 1970), which may have been his cooner of a lifetime.
In speaking with him the last time, he asked how old I was. When I told him he said, "Shoot man. I've got suits older than you!" I believe he was 88 years old. A staunch Bluetick man; although he went to squirrel dogs in later years.
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