Theodore Big Goose Former Bronc Rider Dies at 70 Ponca City News, November 12, 1969 Theodore Big Goose, 70, died Tuesday in the Veterans Hospital in Wichita, where he had been a patient for the past five weeks. He was born Sept. 18, 1899, in Ponca City and had lived in this area all of his life. He attended the old Indian School at White Eagle and Carlile Institute. As a young man he was a bronc rider with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and was billed as Oklahoma Ted. Big Goose was a veteran of World War 1 and a charter member of American Legion Indian Post 38. Big Goose married Zilla Roy in Ponca City about 1920. Surviving him are his daughter Miss Maxine Big Goose of the home on Route 1, and many nephews and nieces. He was preceded in death by his wife and one daughter. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday in the Gill-Lessert Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Levi Big Goose, pastor of the Wichita Indian United Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Ponca Indian Cemetery.