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Ranger Stan Guffey memorialized in Horseshoe Bay

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Glynis Crawford Smith/The Highlander

The Horseshoe Bay Police Department patrol vessel was named officially the PPV Stan Guffey on Saturday, Jan. 21, among the many memorials recognize the heroism of the Texas Ranger 30 years ago. Here, widow of the Texas Ranger Guffey, Josefina Garza Guffey Jennings, left, is presented a replica of the buoy that now resides on the PPV Stan Guffey. The Texas Rangers likewise named a patrol vehicle the Stanley R. Guffey. View an album of images from the day: http://bit.ly/2jtMFyB

By Glynis Crawford Smith

The Highlander

Texas Rangers and other Texas Department of Public Safety and law enforcement officials swelled the crowd from Horseshoe Bay Saturday, Jan. 21, to memorialize Ranger Stanley Keith “Stan” Guffey.

The event marked the 30th Anniversary of the event Jan. 22, 1987, in which Ranger Guffey died in the line of duty, rescuing a two-year-old kidnap victim in Horseshoe Bay. The Texas Department of Public Safety and its Texas Ranger division, the Texas Ranger Association, retired Texas Ranger Association and the City of Horseshoe Bay and local businesses sponsored the event for the unveiling of a Texas Ranger monument from the People of the State of Texas.

“Texas Rangers are woven from a special fabric,” said Josefina Garza Guffey Jennings, Guffey's widow, when she addressed the crowd. “It is not that that Rangers are extraordinary men, it is that extraordinary men , and now women, join the Texas Rangers.”

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