{"id":196793,"date":"2012-06-19T13:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=196793"},"modified":"2012-06-20T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:32:22","slug":"auto-designer-shelbys-family-in-burial-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=196793","title":{"rendered":"Auto Designer Shelby&#8217;s Family in Burial Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=196897\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-196897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/06\/Carroll-Shelby-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Carroll Shelby\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-196897\" \/><\/a>DALLAS (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Celebrated auto designer and race car driver Carroll Shelby\u2019s family is fighting over custody of his body more than a month after his death. Shelby, a native of the Camp County community of Leesburg, died May 10 in a Dallas hospital. But his body remains in a Dallas County morgue as his wife and children fight in court about burial plans. Shelby\u2019s children say in court documents filed in Texas that the 89-year-old Shelby gave his son Michael authority shortly before his death to have his remains cremated. But Shelby\u2019s wife counters the document was forged. Cleo Shelby, who lives in California, says in a court filing that Shelby gave her power of attorney two years ago. Another of Carroll Shelby\u2019s sons, Patrick, told The Associated Press on Tuesday he expects the dispute to take weeks to be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS (AP\/Staff) \u2013 Celebrated auto designer and race car driver Carroll Shelby\u2019s family is fighting over custody of his body more than a month after his death. Shelby, a native of the Camp County community of Leesburg, died May 10 in a Dallas hospital. But his body remains in a Dallas County morgue as his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=196793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Auto Designer Shelby&#8217;s Family in Burial Dispute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 16:28:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196793"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196978,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196793\/revisions\/196978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}