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Mark Edward Kelley © Enid Morning News 07-1968 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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13 aug 1952 - 14 jul 1968
Enid Teenager Killed in Crash Sunday Night
An Enid teenager was killed and five persons were injured in separate accidents in the Enid area Sunday night and Monday morning.
Mark Edward Kelley, 15, died Sunday night when the small foreign sports car in which he was riding flipped end over end and rolled once sideways on a Country Road, north of Enid.
Listed in good condition in Enid General Hospital is Richard A. White, 16, 313 W. Cottonwood, driver of the car in which Kelley was killed.
Listed as in not too serious condition in a Blackwell hospital are Terry Lee Teague, 20, Perry; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Gumm, Billings, and Kenneth Harrison, 17, Perry.
They were injured shortly after 10 AM Monday in a near head – on collision 1.2 miles west of the county line on SH 15 near Billings.
Trooper Bob Sturgeon said the Teague auto veered left of the centerline and struck the Gumm vehicle. He was issued a summons for driving left of center. Trooper Sturgeon said it was raining hard at the time of the accident.
Teague sustained head and possible internal injuries and Vernon Gumm sustained head and body bruises, a fractured left leg and possible internal injuries. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
Mrs. Gumm was wearing a seatbelt. She sustained cuts to her forehead, a bruised knee and possible internal injuries. A passenger in the Teague auto, Kenneth Harrison, had head and body injuries and possible internal injuries. There were no seatbelts in the Teague auto.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, the White car was traveling east on a sandy county road when it went out of control for 279 feet, hit a ditch on the north side of the road, flipped over end over end, then rolled over sideways and finally came to a stop on its wheels.
Both boys were wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident and neither was thrown from the car. The windshield of the car was sheared off during the vehicle's roll.
Kelley was dead on arrival at an Enid hospital. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kelley, 518 W. Spruce.
Funeral services will be 10 AM Wednesday in the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Elmer T. Watkins in charge. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
He was born August 13, 1952, in Enid and had lived here all his life. Kelley attended Harrison school, Emerson junior high and would have been a junior at Enid high school in the fall.
He was a member of North Side Assembly of God Church and Senior High Sunday School Class.
He is survived by his parents, a sister, Marilyn Sue, and a brother, Eddy, both of the home; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hughes of Enid, and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Alphin of Enid.
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