[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Joan Ford: A great lady. We miss you already.
- From: "" <hckryhillgsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Gail Sprock" <gsprock@xxxxxxx>, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:34:44 -0500
Gail, thanks for sharing the excerpt from the interview with Fran and Joan.
We first met Joan and Fran when we bred Bull's dam to Jesse. At the time,
Fran was still re cooperating from his accident, so we didn't get to spend
much time visiting. Nonetheless, Joan took the time to introduce us to
Pete, Iggy and of course Jesse. After that, we talked some and every
opportunity I had I would pick her brain. What Gail printed below is
exactly what I learned from Joan, you know when the dogs you have a "ok"
you know when you can do better. Their standard bar was always set high.
Occasionally we had dinner with them at shows, Joan loved Steve and always
threatened to take him home with her, I think her exact words were "What I
wouldn't give if I were 40 years younger!!LOL! She fussed at us for not
letting Steve show most of our dogs, and she praised us for being "young"
and doing well. I can't tell you how much it meant when we received a very
unique lithograph type card from them congratulating us on Bull's GV, I
still have it. Joan was a fierce competitor, a straight shooter and had the
desire and drive to succeed, I think it was those very qualities that
sustained her through her illness and allowed her defy the odds of her
disease. Steve and I will miss her. Christine
hckryhillgsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Steve and Christine Grainger
WWW.HICKORYHILLGSD.COM
> [Original Message]
> From: Gail Sprock <gsprock@xxxxxxx>
> To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/14/2007 5:21:15 PM
> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Joan Ford: A great lady. We miss you already.
>
> Hi all,
>
> Way back in 1984, Dan Seni and I visited Joan and Fran Ford at their home
in
> Grove City, Ohio. The reason for the visit was to interview the Fords for
> the annual magazine I published at the time. Today, when we've just
learned
> that Joan has passed, I wanted to share some of her words with you all. If
> we had to vote on who the classiest couple in our breed is, I think many
of
> us would find it easy to say: Joan and Fran. I just want to provide you
with
> some words from that long ago interview. And I will add to it over the
next
> two days.
>
> - Gail Sprock
>
> Joan: We wanted to get into showing and breeding. We didn't breed then
> because we lived in town and didn't have enough room, so we decided we
would
> buy something we could show and start that way. We moved out here in the
> country so as to do some breeding. We had a good five years of learning
from
> going to dog shows, seeing other people's breeding and reading whatever we
> could get our hands on. We were novices then like any other novices. Well
> anyway, we bought a bitch, drove back home, and thought we really had
> something. We found out later that, first of all, the dog had been kept
in a
> basement most of her life. She had a lot of black on her, bi-color, sort
of
> like the Red Rock's Gino type. We put her in the car and started for home
> and every time a truck went by on the road she would hit the roof. We
> thought, at first, that she was normally frightened.and that she was. She
> had not seen much daylight and she was six months old. Like any other
> novice, we hadn't looked in her mouth. She was missing at least five or
six
> teeth. We had asked if the bitch's mouth was okay and were told that she
was
> missing a couple of teeth only. Well, we had paid $150. for the bitch.
After
> we discovered that she was almost toothless, plus the fact that you
couldn't
> catch her with a net, we called the breeder. The dog went back to
Pittsburgh
> and we got our money back.
>
> That bitch could have been our foundation bitch! But instead our
foundation
> bitch was Elsa vom Grunes Tahl, who we leased from Ollie Conti. We showed
> her for a while, had her when we moved out here and had a litter out of
her
> by Richter von Leibestraum. . We were hoping to get something much like
Elsa
> but it didn't work out. We did have some nice puppies though and took two
of
> them to our first Futurity in Georgia. We went first with he male and
second
> with the bitch. But they were only fair puppies, not as good as we really
> wanted. We didn't realize what great puppies were at that time; that came
> later when bred Elsa to Fortune of Arbywood and had Lance's litter. Then
we
> saw the difference.
>
>
>
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