{"id":2762,"date":"2013-02-06T13:47:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2013-02-06T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T20:51:20","slug":"bazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/bazy\/","title":{"rendered":"BAZY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bazy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2763 aligncenter\" alt=\"bazy\" src=\"http:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bazy.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bazy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bazy-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theblackstallion.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bazy-458x300.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The horse world has lost a piece of history as the breeder and owner of Al-Marah Arabians, Bazy Tankersley, passed away yesterday at her home in Tucson, AZ. Bazy was a founding sponsor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetales.org\">HorseTales.org<\/a>, family friend and inspiration to my father with her decades of knowledge about bloodlines, conformation and training. As she said recently, &#8220;I was blessed to do what I loved and now (getting older) to remember the names of all my horses.&#8221; Mrs. Tankersely had thousands of friends &#8211; four and two footed.<br \/>\n<a title=\"bazy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rl.tv\/video\/arabians-in-america\/\">Here&#8217;s a video of her at the farm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the obit from the local paper;<\/p>\n<div id=\"above-asset-related\">\n<div id=\"blox-gallery\">\n<div id=\"blox-gallery-container\">\n<div id=\"blox-gallery-caption-open\">\n<div id=\"blox-gallery-caption\">\n<div>&#8220;Bazy&#8221; McCormick Tankersley, an Arabian horse breeder and founder of St. Gregory College Preparatory School, died Tuesday at age 91.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>8 hours ago \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/azstarnet.com\/search\/?l=50&amp;sd=desc&amp;s=start_time&amp;f=html&amp;byline=Veronica%20M.%20Cruz%20Arizona%20Daily%20Star\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica M. Cruz Arizona Daily Star<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"asset-wskyscraper\"><\/div>\n<div>Ruth &#8220;Bazy&#8221; McCormick Tankersley, renowned Arabian horse breeder and the founder of St. Gregory College Preparatory School, died Tuesday at her home. She was 91.<\/div>\n<div>Tankersley bought her first purebred Arabian horse when she was 19 years old and opened Al-Marah Arabians in her early 20s when she and her husband moved to Tucson in 1941, according to Star archives.<\/div>\n<div>Tankersley moved the ranch to Maryland in the 1950s but returned to Tucson in the mid-1970s.<\/div>\n<div>In 2001, Tankersley bequeathed the 85-acre property at 4101 N. Bear Canyon Road to the University of Arizona, which will continue to use the property as a working ranch.<\/div>\n<div>Tankersley also helped found horse breeder organizations, created a program to train young horse lovers and was a supporter of Therapeutic Riding of Tucson, known as TROT, a program that helps children with disabilities ride horses.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;You see, I come from that old-fashioned background of noblesse oblige: If you&#8217;re born with money, you have an obligation to do good works for others,&#8221; Tankersley said in a biography. &#8220;Only in recent years did I come to feel that through Arabian horses I might do more for my fellows than in any other way.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>Tankersley was born in Chicago in 1921. Her father, Medill McCormick, was a U.S. senator from Illinois and her mother, Ruth Hanna McCormick, was an Illinois congresswoman. Both parents were also in the newspaper industry.<\/div>\n<div>Tankersley&#8217;s uncle, Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, appointed her publisher of the Washington Times-Herald. Tankersley wrote a column for the Tribune after the Times-Herald was purchased by the Washington Post in 1954.<\/div>\n<div>Continuing her mother&#8217;s passion for education, Tankersley founded two schools in Maryland and St. Gregory in Tucson.<\/div>\n<div>She donated millions of dollars to the school and gave an annual donation of $100,000 to be used for scholarships, according to Star archives.<\/div>\n<div>Tankersley was a board member of several organizations in Tucson, including the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where she served as president in the late 1970s.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Bazy was an enormously generous person and I got involved with many causes in my life here in Tucson and whenever I needed help financial or just good support, I could turn to Bazy, she was just enormously generous,&#8221; said George Rosenberg, one of Tankersley&#8217;s longtime friends and former editor of the Tucson Citizen.<\/div>\n<div>Though Tankersley had a privileged life, her longtime friend Marty Lynch said she remained very down to earth.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;She was the most genuine, normal person I&#8217;d ever known,&#8221; Lynch said. &#8220;She was interested in people, in animals, in the world and had the background of being part of all of them.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>A memorial service for Tankersley is scheduled for Feb. 25 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church, 3738 N. 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