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Red Bluff Round-Up Director Passes

By Ruth Nicolaus

Don Krois served as a director for 20 years

Don Krois smiles and waves as he rides in the grand entry at the 2018 Red Bluff Round-Up. A Round-Up director, Krois died on March 4. Photo by Hubbell Photos.

Red Bluff, Calif. – A long-time director and volunteer with the Red Bluff Round-Up has passed away.

Don Krois, who served as a director from 2000-2020, passed away on March 4, 2020 in Red Bluff. He was born in Red Bluff on June 29, 1943.

Employed by PG&E for most of his adult life, Krois began volunteering at the Round-Up about fifty years ago, said his long-time friend and fellow Round-Up director Frank Moore. “He’d take vacation days and spend the week (at the fairgrounds), helping me with the Round-Up.”

Even when he wasn’t a director, he was dedicated to his volunteer work, Moore said. Moore related that Krois would work all week at the Round-Up, then go home on Sunday, leaving Moore to do much of the tear-down work himself. After Krois was aware that Moore needed help on Sunday, too, he took the Monday following the Round-Up off from work to help tear down.

He became a director in 2000 and volunteered in a variety of ways at the event. He helped organize the women carrying the sponsor flags on horseback, served as the electrician at the event, organized golf carts for transporting people with handicaps around the grounds, coordinated the Top Hand award and banquet and more. “Darn near anything you needed, he’d do it,” Moore said. “I never heard him say no.”

Krois also helped with electrician duties for the Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale and was a member of the Red Bluff Elks Lodge.

He will be missed, Moore said. “He was good help to the Round-Up and he was a good director, too.

“He was a good man.”

Krois had three children: Josh, Dusty and KimberLee, nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

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