After a brief illness, Bill Clover passed away on Thursday, December 22, 2022, in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 83. He was born in Chicago, on July 29, 1939, and had been a resident of San Antonio since 1983.

Bill's mother and father, Williston L. and Beverly Holzworth Clover, bought a farm in Standardsville, Virginia, in 1941, and became farmers and Black Angus Cattle breeders. Bill worked with his father on the farm in all his spare time, nurturing Black Angus cattle, and winning several awards in cattle shows around the state.

Bill attended Lane High School and graduated from Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bill became an accomplished percussionist in his teens. He developed a love for music, especially jazz, which endured all his life.

He attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute for two years, specializing in agriculture, before joining his father in his successful local real estate agency, Clover Realty Co.

In 1961, Bill married his beloved life-mate, Jo Philips Clover who passed away in 2016. Bill and Jo lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was a real estate salesman and a builder of homes; Newport News, where he worked briefly for a mortgage company; historic Williamsburg, Virginia, where he had a brokerage and property development company and worked in politics for over ten years; in Washington D.C. where he developed and sold an important real estate agency with 17 offices; in New York where he owned and partially refurbished the Gramercy Park Hotel; and in 1976 moved to Mexico where worked as an independent consultant for Fonatur, the tourism development arm of the Mexican government, heading significant parts of the planning and development of Cancun and other areas in Mexico.

After seven years living in Mexico City, Bill and Jo moved to Texas in 1983. He founded a company called Panorama International. Over the years, Bill built Panorama into an international real estate consultancy firm and performed missions in 75 different countries. At one point Bill had offices in London and in Paris. Panorama specializes in resort, resort residential, hospitality and tourism, allowing it to be one of the few firms in the world that can shepherd a project from the initial concept stage through construction and stabilized operations. The company remains operative today.

There is one gift that Bill gave to everyone he met, every single day of his life: complete focus on who he was speaking to, with words of greeting which made one feel so incredibly special and appreciated. In this way and countless others, he has set an example for his whole family and everyone else who was lucky enough to know him. He was larger than life, kind, and sometimes heroic, courageous, careful and always polite. He was the gentleman of immense charm and class that they showed in the movies but who actually existed in real life, in the eyes of his family and many friends. And Bill and Jo really loved San Antonio for the many close friendships he had built up over the years.

Bill is survived by his sisters, Cecile Clover Barron of Charlottesville, Virginia, and Clover Lea of Montserrat, British West Indies; his brother, Christopher Clover from Marbella, Spain; his partner, Beth Nixon of San Antonio; and his nephews and niece, Burtt Blodgett of Mill Valley, California, Win Blodgett of West Palm Beach, Florida, Alexander and Katinka Clover of Marbella, Spain, Sunny and Noah Lea of Montserrat, West Indies, and Jesse Lea of Hollywood, Florida.

A memorial service will be held at a date to be announced.

Submitted by Mary Ann Robertson and Allen Carver.