Dolli Lautaret of Kingman, Arizona, passed away on Dec. 20, 2022, after an immense battle with cancer. Lautaret is mother to The Team Roping Journal's much-valued contributor, Jolee Jordan, who speaks of Lautaret as a fierce and admirable competitor.
“She was very competitive but very kind,” Jordan said. “She had a big heart and she'd help anybody who asked for it … and, sometimes, when they didn't.”
Lautaret was born a Kentuckian on Nov. 24, 1950, to an Air Force family. Twice in her childhood she lived in Germany, where she was trained by masters of dressage, stadium jumping, cross country and three-day eventing. Although young, she proved a competent study and was given the responsibility of training, too.
“Training was always a big part of who she was and…