Greenlee Family contributes to national history: daughter does what dad longed to do

DUNCAN – On July 22. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Day took time out of their busy s~hedule to be interviewed at their hbme on the Lazy B Ranch. Needless to say Harry and Ada Mae are very proud and overwhelmed with the honor that has been bestowed on their daughter Judge Sandra Day O’Connor. “The word spread quickly June 28 through Greenlee County and the entire nation, that Judge O’Connor had been nominated by President Reagan u the 1st women to be nominated to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Judge O’Connor spent many or her ‘ happiest days on the ranch riding horses and roping steers. Her parents Harry and Ada are natives of Arizona, they operate a 260 square mile cattle spread straddling the Arizona and New Mexico border. The LazyB Ranch has been in the Day family since 1881, thtree decades before Arizona became a State. Mr. Day said his father traveled from Vermont where he operated the Lazy B which is 670/o public domaine. The name was acquired because of the brand that was on the cattle when Sandra’s Grandfather purchased them in Mexico, the “B” lying down created the ‘ nnme Lazy B for the ranch. Four gEinerations have lived on the Lazy B during its 100 years. The Days hosted Crentennial celebration last year for tl!1e community of Duncan, Sandra was hr:>me for the festive occasion. Mr. and Mrs. Day were married in Las Cruces in 1929, Ada Mae was born in Douglas and Harry was delivered by a midwife on a ranch. Education seems to be a tradition in the family as Mrs. Da1