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Funeral Services Set Monday for Longtime New Mexico Horseman Richard ''Dickie'' Shearer
Funeral services are set Monday in Portales, New Mexico for longtime horseman Richard ''Dickie'' Shearer.

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Funeral Services Set Monday for Longtime New Mexico Horseman Richard ''Dickie'' Shearer

PORTALES, NM—JANUARY 13, 2019—Funeral services for longtime New Mexico Horseman Richard R. “Dickie” Shearer, 67, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Third and Kilgore Church Of Christ in Portales, New Mexico.

Pat Boone and Mike Terry will officiate with burial to follow in the Portales Cemetery. The family will receive guests at the Wheeler Mortuary in Portales from 2:00 to 4:00 pm Sunday (Jan. 13).

Richard Ray Shearer, known to family and friends as "Dickie", was born May 2, 1951 in Muleshoe, Texas to Mae (Turner) and Doyle Shearer and died peacefully at his home in Portales on Thursday, January 10.

The Shearer family moved to Portales when "Dickie" was six-years-old. He was a 1969 graduate of Portales High School where he enjoyed auto mechanics. He worked as a truck driver and helped on the family farm for several years.

In the early 1970’s he joined the National Guard.

"Dickie" purchased the buses to serve the Floyd School District in 1977, which he later sold. He married Pat Tivis on May 29, 1985 in Muleshoe and they purchased the buses to server to Portales School District from his father in 1988.

In 1991, "Dickie" began breeding American Quarter Horses and racing. This was his real love, and through the years he had owned many successful horses including Beduinos Call, which won 13 races in a row, as well as Call Me Fast First, Mightys First Call, and First Corona Call.

He was a member of the American Quarter Horse Association as well as the New Mexico Horse Breeders Association.

"Dickie" is survived by his wife, Pat Shearer of the home; two daughters and sons-in-law, Angela and Woody Rickerd of Channing, TX and Tammy and Shawn Wood of Lubbock; nine grandchildren, Kwayde Stevens, Saber and Satin Rickerd, and Cesiley and Laeten Stroud, Trevor and Reagan Marqus, Maia Rose and Kash Wood; a sister, Billie Shearer of Hobbs, NM; four brothers, Jimmie Shearer of Portales, Dennis Shearer of Hobbs, NM and Larry and Jerry Shearer both of Portales.

He was preceded in death by his parents as well as by a sister, Betty Shearer and his two sons, Dustin Shearer who died in 2002 and Chad Stroud who died in 2018.

Blane Wood, Trey Wood, Ricky Ramirez, J. J. Gonzales, Donny Ake, Scooter Rutherford, Ruben Ortega and Roy Tivis will serve as pallbearers.

All of the Shearer School Bus Employees and his race track family as well as his other many friends will be honorary pallbearers.