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Submitted: 11/9/21 • Approved: 11/11/21 • Last Updated: 11/14/21 • R467764-G0-S3
World War I
November 9, 1893-December 15, 1933
World War Veteran
Please see Kelley Family Marker
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, December 17, 1933)
Double burial services will be held probably Monday at Wheeler for father and son, Jeff Kelley and Boyd Kelley.
Jeff Kelly, 73, a farmer of near Wheeler met death Friday night in a motor car accident in Oldham County, two miles from Glenrio, New Mexico.
Five other members of the Kelley family were injured in the same accident.
Boyd Keeley died Friday morning in a government hospital at Albuquerque, N.M.
When the accident occurred the Kelleys were on their way home from Tucumcari, N.M., where they had made arrangements for the Boyd Kelley funeral.
Bodies of the father and son now are at Griggs chapel here.
A military funeral is to be held in Borger for Boyd Kelley and then double interment services will be held at Wheeler.
Mrs. Clayton Kelley and her two children, Kenneth and Zonell, who were injured and rushed Friday to Northwest Texas Hospital in a car driven by Paul Morris of Lubbock, were removed Saturday to the home of relatives, Mr. and Mrs. B.B. Beck, 1215 Jackson Street.
Clayton Kelley, driver of the car, escaped injury.
Mrs. Jeff Kelley, widow of the victim, and her daughter, Miss Ola Kelley, are in a Tucumcari hospital. Mrs. Kelley is believed to be injured internally. Miss Ola Kelley is not hurt seriously.
In the other car were four persons, all resident of San Jon, N.M. All four were injured. They were taken to Tucumcari for treatment. None is in a critical condition, according to reports received here.
The four San Jon victims are Mrs. L.C. Martin, Betty Joe King, Mrs. Brent Cosner and Mrs. Nettie Walker.
Contributed on 11/9/21
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