Chiefs Heiress Gracie Hunt Opens up After Losing Family Member in Texas Floods

Kansas City Chiefs heiress Gracie Hunt and her family are in mourning after losing a relative in the severe Texas flooding.

Hunt, the daughter of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt and his wife Tavia, lost her nine-year-old cousin Janie in the natural disaster, which has claimed over 100 lives as of the most recent count. Janie Hunt was one of the more than two dozen Camp Mystic campers who died in the flooding. 

On Monday, Gracie Hunt opened up with her first public comments following the tragedy, sharing a heartfelt Instagram post that said she was "praying for Texas."

"Some days, it’s hard to understand how the world can hold both so much beauty and so much pain," Hunt wrote.. "How can the same God who created the stars and set the planets in motion allow such deep suffering? The truth is, we live in a broken world—one that groans for redemption (Romans 8). But Scripture promises that one day, Christ will make all things new—a new heaven and a new earth (2 Peter 3:13)."

Hunt regularly includes scripture and religious messages in her social media posts, so it is not a surprise she did so in this instance.

"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," she added. "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."

Janie Hunt was the great-granddaughter of billionaire William Herbert Hunt, who was the brother of former Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, Clark's father and Gracie's grandfather.

"Our hearts are broken by the devastation from the floods in Wimberley and the tragic loss of so many lives — including a precious little Hunt cousin, along with several friends’ little girls," Tavia Hunt wrote in an Instagram post Sunday.