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Fauquier County estate to protect the land from development, a move Willis says sparked many of their neighbors to do the same. The estate remains open to the Piedmont Fox Hounds. Mrs. Mellon was put to rest at the local Trinity Episcopal Church — a church that the Mellons gifted to the town of Upperville in 1960. Although flowers are typically not displayed during Lent, the church made an exception for Mrs. Mellon: There were two understated bouquets from her greenhouse. The Piedmont Fox Hounds brought 13 couple to the church and, at the close of the service, Huntsman Spencer Allen blew Gone Away.
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Rogers, ex-MFH, was Fierce Countryside Advocate Dr. Joseph Megeath Rogers, 90, ex-MFH of Loudoun Hunt, died on Saturday, March 8, 2014, at his Hillbrook Farm near Hamilton following a stroke. A physician, farmer, businessman, rural land conservationist, philanthropist and expert horseman, Dr. Rogers was a tireless advocate and practitioner of country living whose contributions in a broad
range of interests were made quietly and with little fanfare. He had remarkable success as an owner, trainer and rider of some of Virginia’s most successful steeplechase horses. Dr. Rodgers was also founder of the Loudoun Hunt’s Oatlands Point-To-Point, as well as the Morven Park Steeplechase. Most notably, Dr. Rogers had an unwavering commitment to protect Virginia’s rural countryside, a mission he often defined as a moral obligation. A long-time member of the board of directors of the Westmoreland Davis Foundation, Dr. Rogers was also a founder of the Morven Park Equestrian Institute, the Loudoun Pony Club, a founding director of the Museum of Hounds and Hunting and of the American Academy of Equine Artists.
Legislator Strang Brought Foxhunting to Aspen Michael Lathrop Strang, ex-MFH, Roaring Fork Hounds, died at home on his ranch outside Carbondale, Colo., on January 12, 2014. Born in Bucks County, Pa., on June 17, 1929, he and his family moved to the Colorado ranch