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Hennessey - Mass of Christian Burial for Manuel Rios - Valles, 17, will be celebrated at 12 noon today at St. Joseph's Catholic Church with the Rev. Mark Mason officiating and directed by Cordry - Sisson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mexico at a later date.
He was born August 2, 1980, in Mexico to Manuel Rios - Alaniz and Socorro Valles - Pineda and died Monday, December 1, 1997, as a result of a train accident in Claremore.
He was a pipeline worker.
He is survived by his parents, Manuel Rios - Alaniz and Socorro Valles - Pineda; one brother, Erle Valles; two sisters, Rubi and Evelin; paternal grandparents, Angel Rios and Socorro Alaniz; maternal grandparents, Ramon Valles and Rios Pineda, all of Mexico.
The state Highway Patrol reported three Dover men were killed in Eastern Oklahoma after a pickup they were in struck a Burlington Northern freight train.
Mimburgo Rios, 22; Guilibidaa Rios, 20; and Francisco Valles, 19, all of Dover, were pronounced dead at the scene about a mile south of Claremore off Oklahoma Highway 66 in Rogers County.
The accident occurred at 7:05 AM.
Mimburgo Rios was driving a 1989 Ford pickup south on Highway 66 when he turned west on a county road and pulled onto some railroad tracks.
Rios apparently did not see an oncoming 72 – car Burlington Northern freight train going north near the intersection.
The train collided with the truck on the driver side and drug it 1755 feet from the point of impact, according to the OHP.
Mimburgo Rios was pinned in the wreckage for over an hour before attendants could get to him, according to the OHP.
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