Martha Josey pine tree filled ranch in Marshall, Texas is one that has always been home. It was her grandmother, Maddy Castleberry’s place before it was hers and it is also where Josey’s clinics first began in 1967.
Josey comes by her hard working and savvy business ways naturally as her grandmother helped light the fire and pave the way for her.
“She followed the boom towns around in her early childhood and when she was a teenager, she started buying big rooms and made them into little night clubs. And she had something, it was called Dime A Dance Girl. She’d get a nickel and the girl would get a nickel,” Josey said.
Her grandmother went on to buy one of the largest night clubs in the country but what Josey learned from her was her love to dress, market and being a motivator that was always willing to help people.
Josey’s father was named Henry Arthur. He was a man who is credited with bringing some of the first registered quarter horses to east Texas. He taught Josey how to look for a horse, how to ride a horse and that is how it all got started.
Josey went on to have 11 National Finals Rodeo qualification, a WPRA World Championship and an AQHA World Championship, both coming in 1980.