GoHorseShow.com offers its deepest sympathies to Pat Clements, a pillar of the Quarter Horse community and Treasurer of the Texas Quarter Horse
Association. Pat’s husband, B. Gill Clements, was believed to be
murdered by a neighbor who was later killed in a shootout with officers.
Click here to read Gill Clements’ obituary.
UPDATE: FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 – 4:00pm
St Michael’s All Saints Church,
8011 Douglass Ave, Dallas 75255
Pat’s family wants charitable contributions to go to the Pauline Allen Gill Foundation which will make charitable contributions to the Children’s Medical Center in Dallas
Pauline Allen Gill Foundation
(214) 521-7243
1901 N Akard St
Dallas, TX 75201-2305
DALLAS — Authorities on Saturday temporarily suspended a search for
the son of former Texas Gov. Bill Clements after finding a body in a
shallow grave on property next to land he owns in East Texas.
The body has not been identified, but Henderson County Sheriff Ray
Nutt said the search for B. Gill Clements, 69, has been stopped for now
pending identification by a Dallas medical examiner. Nutt told The
Associated Press that he doesn’t expect an identification until at least
Sunday.
The body was found on property belonging to Howard Todd Granger, 46. Granger’s property adjoins land owned by B. Gill Clements.
Granger was killed Friday afternoon in a shootout with officers who
were trying to serve a search warrant at his home in rural Henderson
County. The officers were from several law enforcement agencies.
“We found a grave site on Mr. Granger’s property, and today we
unearthed the grave site and found a person in the grave,” Nutt told the
AP on Saturday. “The body was shipped to Dallas to the medical
examiner’s office. We do not know for sure if it was Mr. Clements, but
circumstances indicate it was.”
Nutt said the grave was near Granger’s house and numerous firearms
were found inside the home. He said he did not know if the person found
in the grave had been shot.
He said the sheriff’s department received a call Thursday night from a
family member in Tyler who said Clements was missing. Clements’ pickup
truck was found near property he owned south of Athens, and authorities
began searching the land with tracking dogs. Nutt said the Clements
family owns several pieces of property around the area.
On Friday, the sheriff said, searchers were confronted along a fence
line by Granger, who pointed an AK-47 rifle at them and threatened to
kill them. Nutt said Granger, with whom deputies had no previous
contact, appeared to be acting irrationally.
Henderson County called in other agencies and attempted to serve a
search warrant at Granger’s home with an armored vehicle. Nutt said
Granger opened fire, striking the vehicle about 30 times and shattering
glass. Officers returned fire, killing Granger.
Clements’ father, Bill Clements, 93, took office as governor in 1979
and was the first Republican to hold the office in Texas since
Reconstruction. The oilman was defeated by Democrat Mark White in 1982,
then came back four years later to defeat White.
In June 2009, the ex-governor gave $100 million to the University of
Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, the largest single gift in
the medical research center’s 66-year history.
B. Gill Clements is one of two children of the former governor. He is
listed on the Southwestern Medical Foundation’s website as an honorary
trustee.
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GoHorseShow.com will update this story as more information becomes
available. Please offer your condolences to Pat and the entire Clements
family during this very difficult time.
