Carroll Shelby’s Ashes Buried in Family Plot
Posted/updated on: September 1, 2012 at 5:41 am
DALLAS (AP) — Ashes of celebrated car designer Carroll Shelby have finally been buried in East Texas after months of bickering between his children and wife over how to bury him. A family statement to The Dallas Morning News says the Wednesday burial was in a family plot in Leesburg, in Camp County.
Shelby died in a Dallas hospital May 10 at 89. His three children say their father signed a document giving them permission to have his body cremated, but his last wife Cleo said the document was a forgery. Late last month, the family finally reached agreement to cremate Shelby’s body and divide the remains five ways between his children, his wife and Wednesday’s burial.
Shelby built souped-up versions of the Cobra, Mustang and Viper sports cars.
