![]() ![]() He was a very nice man and Alexandra is a great little girl.”Ĭlements, a 1991 graduate of the U.S. ![]() “He was the one in the family who came to all the parent conferences. When it was confirmed, the news hit the school hard, Rosson said Isn't that Alexandra's dad?'” Marshall Principal Steve Rosson recounted later in the day, choking up. “She said, ‘Andrew Clements, that sounds familiar. The first tentative word came this morning when one of the office workers heard a partial listing of the bridge-collapse victims. Word of the family's tragedy broke slowly at the school. Clements pulled his step-daughter Alexandra out of school May 13 in preparation for the move back East.Īlexandra had said goodbye to her third-grade classmates at Marshall Elementary School in Seaside, where 85 percent of the student body are military dependents. The Clements family cleared out their spacious, one-story home with hardwood floors in the quiet military neighborhood last week. It makes you realize that it could happen to anyone at anytime,” said Hall, whose eyes welled with tears upon hearing of Clements' death.Ĭlements and his wife also have a 2-month-old son, Andrew, and two daughters, Christina, 2, and Alexandra Galbraith, 9. She had the family over for a goodbye dinner a week before the accident. I know they were excited about their new life,” said Jennifer Hall, an Ord Military Community neighbor whose son was a playmate of Clements' 4-year-old son, Michael. “I know he was looking forward to being in Virginia. The dog's travel carrier was perched atop remnants of the van, giving Clements' wife, Nicole, the first clue that her husband had been involved, family members told a hometown newspaper. Among the dead motorists were Clements, who was to have been promoted to Major next week, and the family's German shepherd “Ostar.” The family's new silver Honda Odyssey van was crushed and rendered nearly unrecognizable by the crash. Nearly a dozen cars plunged into the river. Andrew Clements, 34, had finished packing up his Seaside home and was on his way to join his family and start a new job assignment in Virginia.Ĭlements was caught on an Interstate 40 bridge in Webbers Falls on Sunday when out-of-control barge hit a bridge piling, causing a 500-foot span to collapse into the murky Arkansas River. One of the 13 people killed in Sunday's Oklahoma bridge collapse was an Army Captain and father of four who had recently graduated from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Local army captain dies in Oklahoma bridge collapse Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery. Wednesday, Jat Fort Myer Memorial Chapel, Arlington. Tuesday, Jat Mountcastle Funeral Home, 4143 Dale Blvd., Dale City. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Clements two daughters, Alexandra Galbraith and Christina Clements two sons, Michael Clements and Andrew Clements his mother, Sandra Lambson his father, Ronald Clements one sister, Ronda Crowell and one brother, Ronald Blood Jr. His military assignments include Fort Sill, Oklahoma Germany and Monterey, California. He was en route to his new assignment in Alexandria when he died. In 2002, he received a master's degree of science in management, graduating with distinction. Army in 1985 and was later commissioned from the United States Military Academy, West Point, into the field artillery in 1991. He was born in York, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stuttgart American High School, Germany in 1985. Army, 35, died Sunday, May 26, 2002, in Webber Falls, Oklahoma. ![]()
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