Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt Devastated by Family Loss in Texas Floods
In the last few hours, it was revealed that Janie Hunt, cousin of Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, passed away during the floods that struck Central Texas last week.
According to a report published Monday morning by the Dallas Morning News, Janie, aged 9, was one of the 27 campers and counselors who lost their lives at Camp Mystic, a popular girls’ camp located in Kerr County.
Gracie Hunt, devastated by the loss
The eldest daughter of the Kansas City Chiefs owner, Gracie Hunt, shared an emotional message with the people of Texas after losing her young relative in the floods that ravaged the state last week.
“My heart aches for our extended family and friends who lost daughters—for every life lost and every family shattered by the floods in Texas,” Hunt wrote. “I don’t have easy answers, but I do know this: following Jesus doesn’t spare us from pain—but it means we never face it alone.
Even in the darkest valleys, we hold on to the hope that this is not the end of the story,” she wrote on her Instagram account.
More than 100 people have died after the Guadalupe River in Kerr County overflowed, rising 9 meters above its usual level. So far, 84 bodies have been recovered, including 28 children.
Janie was the great-granddaughter of the late William Herbert Hunt, brother of the late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt, who was the father of Clark Hunt.