Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

May 12, 2025
+80
°
F

Celebrating the Life of Cowboy Russell Tyrone Mills

Sunrise March 23, 1957 and Sunset August 17, 2019

On March 23, 1957, Ella Louise Edwards Dorsey was blessed with her first born of six children, a handsome baby boy whom she named Russell Tyrone. Robert and Alma Mills were excited to welcome Russell and were proud to become parents. As a village, together they each played a major role in molding Russell to become an intelligent and hardworking young man. Russell joined church at a young age and was baptized at Star Bethel Missionary Baptist Church.

Russell grew up and was educated in the Acres Home Community of Houston, Texas. He attended Bethune Elementary, Charles Richard Drew Middle School and George Washington Carver High School in Aldine ISD where he developed a true love for agriculture. After high school, Russell worked at Houston Lights & Power (HL&P). Seeking greater independence, Russell took a leap of faith and launched his own business, Mills Construction.

At a very young age Russell loved riding horses. He competed in bareback riding and bull riding and steer dogging events throughout the country and was awarded the opportunity to represent in some of the most prestigious rodeos in the nation. Russell entered his 1st rodeo competition in bull riding at the age of 16 years old. In 1981 he won the Bill Pickett International “All Around Cowboy Award.” In 1984 in Gary, Indiana, he set the record in steer dogging with a time of 2.7 seconds and set the record at the Bill Pickett’s Rodeo. In 1989 he won the bare back riding at the final rodeo hosted by Gilley’s. Russell was a true Legend in the cowboy arena. He was a cowboy and truly committed to his western roots. He was a member of Acres Home Riding and Roping Club, Prairie View Trail Riders, Southwestern Trail Riders and Butcher Boys Riding Club.

Russell loved hosting parties and dancing to zydeco and country music. As any true cowboy, Russell loved watching westerns, rodeos and horse riding.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Ella Louise Edwards Dorsey, Robert and Alma Mills; his brothers Carl Dorsey and Kent Lemons.

He is survived by his daughter, LaMetria Carr; siblings: Reginia Tate (Nathaniel), Ernesta Washington (Sylvester), Julia Askew; Kimberly Dorsey, Kenneth Dorsey and Kirk Dorsey; uncles; Joel Rossow, Shedrack Edwards; Aunts: Mary Ann Sanders, Ora Mae Kennedy and Tommie Dale Floyd; nephews: Jowon Askew, Keylon Dorsey and Jaxon Dorsey; nieces: Victoria Okopie and Jade Dorsey: and host other nieces, nephews, relatives and friends who will miss him dearly.

Latest Articles

NEED PAST ISSUES?

Search our archive of past issues Receive our Latest Updates
 
* indicates required
Search