Family history includes rodeo
Sunday, August 11, 2002
SIKESTON -- Bob Mitchell Sr., 75, and his grandson Deke Lape, 27, didn't plan anything. It just worked out this way, they said. When the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo began in 1952, Bob Mitchell Sr. was serving as Jaycee president; now, 50 years later, Lape is sitting in the same seat.