My cousin just called me and told me about some dear Christian friends of his that lost their son in a car wreck. Two other young men died with him in a car crash last Sunday morning. They were on their way back to Oxford, Mississippi to attend church like they always did.
Walker Kelly, Sam Kelly and Mason Wilbanks, all three freshmen at Ole Miss, died in a crash on Interstate 55 early Sunday. More
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Paramedics said all of the teenagers were pronounced dead at the scene. They were each graduates of Madison Central High School and freshmen at the University of Mississippi.”It’s just hard to put in words to describe what it’s like to work an accident like that,” Dunn said.
Visitation for all three families will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wednesday at Brooadmoor Baptist Church in Madison. The funeral for the three friends is set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church. The families have requested that those attending the funeral wear red and blue. “I really don’t know how I’m going to make it without him being here, getting me through life,” said Wilbanks’ friend Anna Claire Giles. “He encouraged me. He was everything.”
The families received the news of the crash just hours after saying goodbye to the three teenagers, who were headed back to Ole Miss after a surprise weekend at home.
“(The visit home) was just the best surprise, and you know, it’s a surprise that I’ll always remember,” said Mason Wilbanks’ mother, Lynn Wilbanks. “I know why it was orchestrated the way that it was, because it was our last time with him.”
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The families are members of Broadmoor Baptist Church. Many members of the church gathered there Sunday afternoon.”It’s tough. Hundreds and hundreds of kids are affected because they had siblings,” said Broadmoor student pastor Michael Kelly. “A lot of people are mourning and grieving and it’s just going to be a tough couple of days.”
The Highway Patrol said the crash will be reconstructed to help investigators determine what went wrong.
Dunn said this is not the first wreck to happen along that stretch of interstate.
“In the last five or six years, we have had a couple similar wrecks,” Dunn said.
MHP said there was no evidence of alcohol or drugs at the scene.
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These gentlemen were Christians and I am sure they would want me to share the gospel. So here it is:
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