The Schrader Family had their start with Cheyenne Frontier Days™ in the parades. Wesley Schrader drove the funeral hearse in the parade in the 1930s. He, along with his son Marvin and his wife Lorene, donated the use of their business parking lot for the Frontier Days General Committee reviewing area, provided storage areas and dressing rooms for many parade participants and a viewing area for the W-HEELS. Marvin’s son Don, and his wife Bev, continued this tradition.
Wesley’s grandson, Robert W. “Bob” Schrader, started volunteering on the Parades Committee in 1959 as a mounted Parade Marshall and also drove the funeral hearse at CFD. Bob worked on the women’s goat-tying event, led racehorses, took racing entries at the office, and worked on spotlights at the night show. He assisted with the Chariot Racing, was a mounted Chuck Wagon Racing judge, and worked on the Contestants Committee at Chute 9. He later worked on the Security and Ticket Committees.
Bob’s wife, Betty A. Schrader, came from a family of CFD volunteers and supporters. She began in 1963 by helping the Racing Committee, eventually becoming the Racing Committee Secretary. Betty’s duties grew to include assisting the Contestants Committee by typing and preparing the day and night show programs.

Bob and Betty worked at Chute 9 as PRCA Timers, eventually becoming Gold Card PRCA Members. Bob became a HEEL in 1975 and is currently a Silver HEEL. Both Bob and Betty continue to volunteer for the CFD Public Relations Committee.
The newest generations of the family now carry the torch as flag bearers, Dandies, assisting the Security Committee, volunteering on the Public Relations Committee, as Secretary of the Concessions Committee, and as TOES.