Marble Falls pro rodeo 2017

 

 

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Support pours in to bronc rider's family

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Contributed/Pauline Reese-Herbert

Bill Herbert of Marble Falls lands on his head and neck in a fall from a bucking bronc Saturday, July 15, at the 2017 Marble Falls Pro Rodeo. Family and friends are rallying to help with the expense of surgery to take place Tuesday, July 25, and recovery.

By Christi Bertelson and Richard Zowie

Highland Lakes Newspapers

Following severe injuries sustained while saddle bronc riding in the Marble Falls Rodeo on Saturday, July 15, Bill Herbert will undergo surgery Tuesday, July 25, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.

Herbert was flipped from a bucking horse. He landed on his head, twisting and shoving his neck forward to break at the C3 and C4 vertebrae. He also sustained a torn and occluded artery going to the right side of his brain from the fall.

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