http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lodinews/obituary.aspx?n=virgil-f-haney&pid=153148908

For any hard-core researchers still interested in this matter. Mr. Haney's occupations were given as a horse trainer and rodeo clown, as well as a bar owner. It must have been quite the scene in his day! (In my mind's eye, I see horses leaping over the bar, Haney trying to rope them in his clown suit while bulls dash here and there, upsetting bottles of beer. Okay, I have a somewhat warped brain.) But Gene's research seems on the mark.