Ann Lowdon Call (1945–2007) was a

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woman and was the 2005 AQHA Select World Champion in Pleasure Driving. She was inducted into the

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in 2005.Ann Lowdon Call
, ''National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame'', accessed October 31, 2011.

Biography

Call was born to Robert and Maria Lowdon in

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, on May 30, 1945. She wasn't born in

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but often said she got there as quickly as she could. She graduated from the

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with a major in

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and

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. In 1971 she earned a

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in guidance and counseling from

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. She married Rodger L. Call in 1970. They had two children, Katri and Rob.Ann Call Dies
''Bridle and Bit'', accessed October 31, 2011. Call began showing Palominos with her family in 1985, and she won the High Point Amateur Award at the Palomino World Championships in 1986. She began to show American Quarter Horses in the late 1980s. Call had been diagnosed with

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as a child, and in the 1990s she lost both of her legs to the disease. However, she continued to show Quarter Horses in

pleasure driving Pleasure driving is a horse show class seen in the United States, which features light breeds of horses and ponies hitched to a two or four-wheeled show cart. Horses are driven at a walk and two speeds of trot, generally designated as a workin ...

. Call won the AQHA Reserve Champion Pleasure Driving award almost every year between 1998 and her death in 2007, and she was awarded the Select World Championship in 2005 and 2006, as well as being the Reserve High Point Pleasure Driving Amateur in 2006. She died July 3, 2007, from complications of

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References

1945 births 2007 deaths Sportspeople from Chicago Brigham Young University alumni Sportspeople from Fort Worth, Texas University of Texas at Austin College of Education alumni Call, Ann Lo Call, Ann Lowdon Deaths from diabetes Cowgirl Hall of Fame inductees {{US-equestrian-bio-stub