San Antonio Livestock Hall of Fame adds local cowboy

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Billy Schieberle was literally up on a Colorado mountain when he got a call informing him he had been inducted into the San Antonio Livestock Show & Rodeo Hall of Fame. Although he said he nearly fell head over heels at the news, he survived to come back down to Gonzales to tell his story.

Schieberle, a 1962 graduate of Gonzales High School, has been participating in stock shows for years, and said he was blown away when he found out he had been inducted.

He was hunting on a mountain in Colorado when the executive director of the San Antonio Livestock Show called and gave him the good news.

“I nearly fell off the mountain!” Schieberle said. “They said the induction ceremony would be on January 12.”

The San Antonio Livestock Show is a volunteer organization whose proceeds go to the youth of Texas – by way of scholarships. Schieberle has been a volunteer with the organization for 25 years, and says he worked several years before that not even knowing he had to be a volunteer.

“Before that, I showed at all the stock shows,” he said.

Schieberle also recently won the Walter Joyce Award, which recognizes people who “do an outstanding job” helping stock show volunteers.

“Also, anything to do with 4-H, I was involved with it,” he said.

In addition, Schieberle is known for when he showed the first Santa Gertrudis heifer ever in the San Antonio Stock Show. The heifer won both San Antonio and Houston shows as the single entry.

“I caught a calf in a calf scramble in Houston,” he said. “They gave me a $125 certificate, and the Luling Foundation told me they'd sell me a Santa Gertrudis heifer for that amount. There were only four breeds prior to that which were allowed in the show.”

An avid hunter, Schieberle delights in hunting mule deer and elk in Colorado. He also enjoys hunting antelope in Wyoming. But, like others, he also “sets his sights” on the Lone Star State.

“Every now and then I like to sneak up on a white-tail here in Texas, if I can find a place to hunt,” he said.

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