The world shrunk considerably for a Hennessey family at a recent stock show in Denver.

“When this man from Colorado and his wife bought Cade’s animal at the Denver nationals then said he was from Hennessey, we thought it really is a small world,” said Amy (Howe) Charmasson of Hennessey. “Then when he said he went to school with my mom, I couldn’t believe it.”

Amy’s mom is Linda (Hobbs) Howe, a 1973 Hennessey High School graduate. So is Earl Enix, who, with his wife Candy, purchased Amy’s son’s first-place lamb at the National Western Stock Show.

Earl, who retired Jan. 1 as an American Airlines pilot, said they went to the junior championship auction Jan. 24 and he won the bid.

The Enixes live in Centennial, Colo., and although Earl had joined the national group and its Silver Spur Club a few years ago, it was their first year to go to the nationally-broadcast event.

When he looked down the bid list of champions and saw there was someone from Hennessey, they decided to bid on him “even if I didn’t recognize the Charmasson name.”

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Enix found out later that the Charmasson family live west of Hennessey in the Maple Grove School area where his family lived.

Earl is the son of the late Millie Alice (Redenbo, HHS ’41) and Lee Enix (HHS ’37), and the 2019 HHS Hall of Famer started the Enix Family Scholarship for seniors about four years ago. It’s to honor his parents and other descendants of the Enix, Redenbo and Rogers families.

“The Enixes lived oneand-a-half miles from where we live now,” said Amy.

It was a half-mile from where Amy’s grandfather, Karcher Hobbs (HHS ’50), and grandmother, the late Brownie (Hickey) Hobbs, once called home.

This story about these families came about all because 10-year-old 4-Her Cade Charmasson took first place with his crossbred market lamb, Boots, in Denver.

The Enixes received a handwritten thank-you note from Cade that said he plans “to use the money for future show lambs and for my college fund.”

This was a premium auction, so Cade got to keep his lamb.

It was Cade’s second national competition and he’d been competing in state shows since he was 6, said his father, Chad.

Cade’s family has lived in Hennessey for about 10 years, said his mom, and Cade gets plenty of support from his dad, and sometimes even his 5-year-old brother, Crew.

Both Chad and Amy taught ag classes at Elgin.

He grew up in Woodward and Amy in Chandler where her dad, Dale, coached.

The couple now own Shobert’s Feed Supplement.

“It’s an additive for all species of livestock,” said Chad.

They also raise sheep and Amy works at Grandpa Karcher’s Twenty-Twenty Oil & Gas Co. on Hennessey’s Main Street.

Karcher lives in Stillwater, and is doing well, said Amy.

“It’s hard to keep Grandpa from coming to the office,” she said. “I think he and Dave Cofer were even talking the other day about going fishing.”