August 2021 • Volume 14 Number 8 Memorial event August 28 in Spy Hill: Barrel racing event in honor of Jacey Lee BY KARA KINNA March 4, 2021 was a trag- ic day for the family and friends of Jacey Lee. The seemingly healthy 25-year- old went to bed at her home in Spy Hill on March 3 but didn’t wake up the next morning. Her mother, Michelle Fredbjornson, says the doc- tors think Jacey passed away from an adult ver- sion of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) known as Sudden Adult Death Syn- drome (SADS) or Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS) when it happens in adults while they sleep. While the death left a sud- den, unexpected and gap- ing hole in the lives of those Jacey Lee loved horses, barrel racing and who knew Jacey, Fredbjorn- hunting, among many other things. son says Jacey’s spirit and love of life was so strong that something needed to be done to commemorate her. The 25-year-old was deeply passionate about many things—music, fam- ily, friends, hunting, wood- working—but her love of barrel racing, horse riding, rodeo, and rounding up cattle were so strong that she lived and breathed the cowgirl life. For that reason, the Jacey Lee Memorial Race will be held in Spy Hill on Satur- day, August 28 in memory of Jacey. Organized by Fredbjorn- son with lots of help and do- nations from family, friends cows, she enjoyed fall roundup, bringing cows home, prac- and acquaintances—people who knew and loved Jacey— ticing in the arena all the time, going on trail rides. She was the event will consist of Open 5D, Youth 3D, and PeeWee very active. barrel racing with prizes up for grabs in each category. “Her celebration of life was held at our ranch and we put “The barrel racing is an event where family, friends and out her saddle and her deer horns that she had. We had competitors can come and enjoy a sporting event that Jacey pictures of everything and it was very well done. loved to compete in. This is a day to honour her, share some “She loved watching her niece learn to ride. Anything a memories, have some laughs and watch people have fun boy could do she could do, that is always what she said. barrel racing,” says Fredbjornson. She just had a gift for everything she did, and she loved to “Jacey was my greatest fan. She made me step out of my do it.” knit group. comfort zone and believed in me, and now I love compet- Fredbjornson says the Jacey Lee Memorial Race was her “It’s a family,” she says. “People support each other in ing in barrel racing.” idea after Jacey passed away. that world, it’s close. She knew tons of people all over Man- Fredbjornson says her daughter was one of those rare “It was my idea to honour her passion for doing barrels itoba and Saskatchewan. Her dad has rodeoed his whole people who was good at almost anything she tried. and for all of her friends and family to get together in a way life. Rodeo families have a special bond. There have been “She was 25 and she was very talented in anything she of honoring her and giving back to all her friends and com- so many people contact us to enter that I don’t even know. did. She enjoyed working with cattle, she enjoyed riding petitors in prizes and donations,” she says. “She was young so she had lots of rodeo acquaintances her horses, she’d build wooden tables, she loved to hunt— “She was a very fun person and she really liked to get from all over, she was a likable person, she had friends ev- she was a trophy hunter. She was passionate about music people going and doing things, and she started me barrel erywhere.” and loved to sing. racing a few years ago. She pushed me out of my comfort Fredbjornson says the event on August 28 is meant to be “She grew up at Virden and Spy Hill community pas- zone many times.” a fun day. tures, that is where she spent most of her childhood and Since announcing the event Fredbjornson says there has “This Race is for all levels of competitors,” she says. “It adult life riding horses, checking cows. been an overwhelming amount of support for the event, ZLOOEHD'WRSÀYHLQHDFK'FRPHEDFNWRWKHVKRUWJR “In Grade 5 she started in the Manitoba High School Ro- and people from all over Saskatchewan and Manitoba sign- The winner of the saddles will be the top two that run clos- deo Association and competed there along with the Mani- ing up to participate in it. She says that’s because Jacey was HVWWRWKHLUÀUVWUXQ toba Rodeo Association. 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