Lane Frost - Mt. Olivet Cemetery - Hugo, OK
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N 33° 59.926 W 095° 30.098
15S E 268948 N 3764841
Final resting place of 25 year old Lane Frost, on whose life the movie "8 Seconds" is based
Waymark Code: WMCD0P
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2011
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Professional Bull Rider Lane Frost is buried in Hugo Cemetery in the Showman's Rest and Bull Rider's Reprieve area which honors circus folk and rodeo participants. He is buried next to Freckles Brown.
Lane died at the age of 25 in Cheyenne after a tragic fall while riding the bull "Taking Care of Business". After Lane's death, his good friend Cody Lambert designed the safety vests that bull riders are now required to wear.
The movie 8 Seconds is a wonderful movie that details the life of a talented Lane, his journey in the rodeo, and his relationship with the woman he eventually married, Kellie Kyle. Luke Perry portrayed Lane in the movie, with Cynthia Geary playing the role of Kellie. Make sure you have tissues on hand while watching this movie.
From wikipedia:
Lane began riding cows at the age of 5,and won his first rodeo award at the age of 10.
At the age of 15 Lane started to ride bulls on a regular basis. Before that, he had been competing on calves and steers. His first rodeo awards were won in 1974, when he was 10, at the "Little Buckaroos" Rodeos held in Uintah Basin. Lane stayed on a bucking Shetland Pony to win first in bareback, took second in calf roping and rode a calf in the "bull riding" event to place third. While rodeoing wasn't the way of life his parents exactly wanted for him, they never discouraged him, and helped him whenever they could.
Lane spent his first fourteen years in Utah, doing chores on the dairy farm his parents owned, and later competing in various rodeo events. When he was in junior high school (seventh and eighth grade), in Vernal, Utah, he excelled in wrestling. Although he never wrestled before entering junior high, as many of the other boys had done, because of his interest in rodeo, the coaches still had high expectations for him. Lane, then weighing only seventy-five pounds, won forty-five matches, lost four times, and had two ties.
Lane also continued competing in the "Little Britches Rodeos", and any other rodeo he could enter, until his parents moved the family to the town of Lane, Oklahoma, in 1978 to escape the harsh Utah winters. He attended Atoka High School in Atoka, Oklahoma.[2]
He was taught the art of riding by his father and also his dad's good friend, Freckles Brown, who was a World Champion Bull Rider. In Oklahoma, Lane was the National High School Bull Riding Champion in 1981. He was the Bull Riding Champion of the first Youth National Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1982.
On January 5, 1984, he married Kellie Kyle, a barrel racer from Quanah west of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Text on headstone and markers:
A Champion in the Arena
A Champion in Life
Lane Frost
Oct. 12, 1963
July 30, 1989
Lane Frost
Lane, Oklahoma
and
Quanah, Texas
1987 World Bull Riding Champion
PRCA # C17922
World Champion Bull Rider
PRCA 1987
Lane,
I love you,
Kellie
Married to Kellie Kyle Jan. 5, 1985
Description:
Lane Clyde Frost (October 12, 1963 – July 30, 1989) was a professional bull rider and Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) member, who died in the arena at the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo as a result of injuries sustained riding the bull "Takin' Care of Business".
http://www.lanefrost.com/Cheyenne.htm
Date of birth: 10/12/1963
Date of death: 07/30/1989
Area of notoriety: Sports
Marker Type: Monument
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: dawn to dusk
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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