Bradie Lee Clements

On Thursday, November 23, 1995 while most families were watching the KC Chiefs and enjoying their afternoon Thanksgiving dinners, Bradie Lee Clements was born to Darren and Angela (Aley) Clements. From the moment Bradie came into this world until the minute he left us on April 20, 2015 to join his maternal grandparents, Robert and Roberta Aley, in Heaven, Bradie never stopped moving. He kept his parents always wondering where is Bradie, where did these new dogs come from or who put the milk jug back in the refrigerator completely empty?? And their loving response was always the same…”That’s just Bradie”. If you knew Bradie, you knew that there was always somewhere to go and always something to do…and his friends and family all knew that when you asked what his plans were his response was always the same, “I am busy, bud…” Bradie lived up to his favorite Ford motto…”The Best Never Rest…”

To most of his 2014 MHS classmates, Bradie was known “Country Clem” because he always had on dirty cowboy boots, a dog box in the back of his truck and he loved anything that allowed him to be out in the country, running his favorite coonhound Jake or tearing down a back country road to his favorite fishing hole. Bradie was honest and hardworking having worked for Nodaway County Veterinary Clinic during his junior and senior high school years. He loved the time he got to spend working with Drs. Joe and Ed Powell. Bradie won an FFA award during his junior year for working over 1600 hours while being a full time student. After high school, Bradie accepted a position as a summer laborer for MoDOT and was proud the day he completed getting his CDL license. In the last month, Bradie was hired to work 2nd shift machining at Kawasaki Motors, to follow the footsteps set by his father. More than anything, in the fall of 2014 Bradie met a girl, Miss Katie Beck, who was the one and only girl to ever get Bradie to slow down and together they had started to build a life together…Bradie was forever a better man for having met Katie.

Bradie played football from Kindergarten through his sophomore year of high school, was a 4 year FFA member but was most proud of his membership in various coon hunting clubs, including the Nodaway County Coon Hunters Association and Northwest Missouri Coon Hunter’s Association. There was nothing Bradie enjoyed more than running his dogs and competing in night hunts…

Bradie leaves behind his parents, his younger brothers Blake (16) and Benjamin (13), paternal grandparents, Richard Clements, Pickering, and Leareta (Harris) Clements, Pickering, girlfriend, Katie Beck, Fairfax and many aunts, uncles, cousins – as well as an entire community of friends and fellow coon hunters throughout NE, IA, MO, KS and OK.

Bradie is in Heaven now smiling down upon us all…driving a loud Ford truck, he’s got a couple Walker coon hounds in the dog box, and is headed out to dump the dogs for one more run…as another competition hunter stated….”rest easy, young man, your entry fees have been paid in full.”

Monetary donations can be made to Citizen’s Bank & Trust – Maryville care of the “Bradie Clements Memorial Fund” to establish a pay-it-forward program in our community.

Visitation will be at Bram’s Funeral Home – Maryville - Friday, April 24th from 6-8 pm ~ Funeral will be at Laura Street Baptist Church – Maryville – Saturday, April 25th @ 10:30 am ~ Burial will be at Miriam Cemetery - Maryville

A Celebration of Life and Lunch will be held for all family and friends at Laura Street Baptist Church following burial.