The Wellington Leader
May 5, 1983
A former Wellington man died and two others were injured in a two-vehicle collision which occurred at 9:45 p.m., 6.3 miles south of Wellington on Highway US 83.
Charles Edward Coffee, 30, now of Muskogee, Oklahoma died at 11:46 p.m. in Collingsworth General Hospital, where all three men were taken by Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service.
Injured in the accident were Selemon Camacho, 32, of Briscoe and Efrian Oranio, about 22, of Childress, who was identified as driver of the second vehicle.
DPS Trooper Herb Duncan, who headed the investigation, said Coffee was traveling north in a pickup.
The southbound car carrying Oranio and Camacho, drove into the north-bound lane and struck the pickup almost head-on.
Oranio was later transferred to Northwest Texas Hospital, Amarillo with multiple injuries. His condition was reported as stable last Tuesday.
Camacho remained in Collingsworth General Hospital where a hospital spokesman said Tuesday evening his condition was stable.
Funeral services for Coffee will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Church of God in Christ. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Coffee was born in Wellington, December 6, 1952, the son of the late Allen Thompson and the late Ernestine Coffee. He lived at Wellington until 1979 when he moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was a leather worker .
Survivors are two brothers, Robert Coffee and Joseph Kilgore, both of Wellington; a daughter Rolanda Coffee of Hollis; his grandfather, Joseph Coffee of Wellington, and an aunt, Pearline Johnson of Clovis, New Mexico.
Angie Mitchell Martin
May 5, 1983
A former Wellington man died and two others were injured in a two-vehicle collision which occurred at 9:45 p.m., 6.3 miles south of Wellington on Highway US 83.
Charles Edward Coffee, 30, now of Muskogee, Oklahoma died at 11:46 p.m. in Collingsworth General Hospital, where all three men were taken by Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service.
Injured in the accident were Selemon Camacho, 32, of Briscoe and Efrian Oranio, about 22, of Childress, who was identified as driver of the second vehicle.
DPS Trooper Herb Duncan, who headed the investigation, said Coffee was traveling north in a pickup.
The southbound car carrying Oranio and Camacho, drove into the north-bound lane and struck the pickup almost head-on.
Oranio was later transferred to Northwest Texas Hospital, Amarillo with multiple injuries. His condition was reported as stable last Tuesday.
Camacho remained in Collingsworth General Hospital where a hospital spokesman said Tuesday evening his condition was stable.
Funeral services for Coffee will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Church of God in Christ. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Coffee was born in Wellington, December 6, 1952, the son of the late Allen Thompson and the late Ernestine Coffee. He lived at Wellington until 1979 when he moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was a leather worker .
Survivors are two brothers, Robert Coffee and Joseph Kilgore, both of Wellington; a daughter Rolanda Coffee of Hollis; his grandfather, Joseph Coffee of Wellington, and an aunt, Pearline Johnson of Clovis, New Mexico.
Angie Mitchell Martin
The Wellington Leader
May 5, 1983
A former Wellington man died and two others were injured in a two-vehicle collision which occurred at 9:45 p.m., 6.3 miles south of Wellington on Highway US 83.
Charles Edward Coffee, 30, now of Muskogee, Oklahoma died at 11:46 p.m. in Collingsworth General Hospital, where all three men were taken by Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service.
Injured in the accident were Selemon Camacho, 32, of Briscoe and Efrian Oranio, about 22, of Childress, who was identified as driver of the second vehicle.
DPS Trooper Herb Duncan, who headed the investigation, said Coffee was traveling north in a pickup.
The southbound car carrying Oranio and Camacho, drove into the north-bound lane and struck the pickup almost head-on.
Oranio was later transferred to Northwest Texas Hospital, Amarillo with multiple injuries. His condition was reported as stable last Tuesday.
Camacho remained in Collingsworth General Hospital where a hospital spokesman said Tuesday evening his condition was stable.
Funeral services for Coffee will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Church of God in Christ. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Coffee was born in Wellington, December 6, 1952, the son of the late Allen Thompson and the late Ernestine Coffee. He lived at Wellington until 1979 when he moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was a leather worker .
Survivors are two brothers, Robert Coffee and Joseph Kilgore, both of Wellington; a daughter Rolanda Coffee of Hollis; his grandfather, Joseph Coffee of Wellington, and an aunt, Pearline Johnson of Clovis, New Mexico.
Angie Mitchell Martin
May 5, 1983
A former Wellington man died and two others were injured in a two-vehicle collision which occurred at 9:45 p.m., 6.3 miles south of Wellington on Highway US 83.
Charles Edward Coffee, 30, now of Muskogee, Oklahoma died at 11:46 p.m. in Collingsworth General Hospital, where all three men were taken by Collingsworth Volunteer Ambulance Service.
Injured in the accident were Selemon Camacho, 32, of Briscoe and Efrian Oranio, about 22, of Childress, who was identified as driver of the second vehicle.
DPS Trooper Herb Duncan, who headed the investigation, said Coffee was traveling north in a pickup.
The southbound car carrying Oranio and Camacho, drove into the north-bound lane and struck the pickup almost head-on.
Oranio was later transferred to Northwest Texas Hospital, Amarillo with multiple injuries. His condition was reported as stable last Tuesday.
Camacho remained in Collingsworth General Hospital where a hospital spokesman said Tuesday evening his condition was stable.
Funeral services for Coffee will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Church of God in Christ. Burial will be in North Fairview Cemetery by Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors.
Coffee was born in Wellington, December 6, 1952, the son of the late Allen Thompson and the late Ernestine Coffee. He lived at Wellington until 1979 when he moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was a leather worker .
Survivors are two brothers, Robert Coffee and Joseph Kilgore, both of Wellington; a daughter Rolanda Coffee of Hollis; his grandfather, Joseph Coffee of Wellington, and an aunt, Pearline Johnson of Clovis, New Mexico.
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