Working Ranch Magazine Summer 2025

Elko County Cattlewoman of the year 2025

Patsy Tomera spent their youth in the rural commu nity surrounded by horses and some cattle but her family never owned any. Who could have imagined back then that one day she would ride her own string of horses and run one of the larger ranches in Northeastern Nevada! That city girl found herself in Elko with a horse of her own in 1973. While cocktail waitressing at the Ranch Inn, Patsy met a local rancher, Tom

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BY SABRINA REED

ing my mother, Patsy Tomera as your 2025 Cattlewoman of the year. She attended her first Cattlewomen’s meeting in October of 1983 and has been a supporter since. Patsy is the embodiment of the American dream. Born in Lane, Oklahoma she grew up walking barefoot to school and wearing flour sack dresses. She and her siblings

Tomera. They were married in 1977 and she jumped into ranch life feet first! Tom and Patsy lived at the fam ily ranch at Southfork for five years. It was there she rode her faithful horse, Wahee, and learned to rope, brand, and feed cattle. The ranch was sold to make way for the South Fork reser voir in 1982. Together Tom and Patsy packed up their family of five children and their share of cattle and moved to the Stonehouse Ranch in Pine Valley. Patsy has countless stories of long days in the saddle, salt haul ing adventures, and many memories made alongside Tom on the ranch. Patsy made time to be involved in many different stewardship programs imperative to ranching communi ties, volunteering decades of years on boards for the NRCS, Great Basin Resource Board, FSA, and the Eureka County Conservation District. She was also a member of the Carlin Booster Club, the Pine Valley Volunteer Fire

Susan Tomera, Lynn Tomera, Sabrina Reed, Sandy Sestanovich, Patsy Tomera

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