Charles Malcolm

Charles Henry Malcolm, 78, of Porum, died Oct. 9, 2016, at home with family after a two-year battle with cancer.
Charles was born in Eagle Mills Township, Iredell County, N.C., to Clarence Eugene and Nola Harris Malcolm.
He had one brother and six sisters.
At age 15, Charles started riding rough stock at a dude ranch in up state New York. The skills he learned there put him on what was then the professional rodeo circuit east of the Mississippi. No PBR, no sponsors, no million dollar prize money, but he made his living at it.
In the Southeastern Rodeo Association and the Coastal Rodeo Association, he was a multiple bull riding champion, often because he rode those “unrideable” bulls.
At age 36, a bad get off of a bull broke his neck and ended his bull riding. But he didn’t leave rodeoing.
Charles turned to roping, first calf roping, then team roping. He was quite successful at both.
He studied roping and roping horses with the same eye for detail that had made him successful in bull riding. He also began training both horses and younger cowboys. Ask team roping champion Luke Brown or PBR champion J.B. Mauney about Charles’ influence.
In addition, he did some work on movies as a wrangler and horse stunt man. As one friend said today, “God got a real good cowboy.”
Charles is survived by his wife, Alice; and her daughter, Frances of Porum; and two sons, by a previous marriage, Ronald Eugene Malcolm and wife, Brenda, and Charles H. Malcolm, Jr. (Chuck) and wife, Susie, both of Mooresville, N.C.; as well as grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Charles did not want a funeral service, just something simple. So friends may drop by the house between 2 and 4 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14, 2016.
Instead of flowers, please make a donation in Charles’ name to the kind staff of Hometown Hospice, 2307 S York St, Muskogee OK 74403.