Banks-Franklin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Kesler, Alice July 9, 1975
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Anderson Independent-Mail, July 11, 1975
Anderson Independent-Mail
Friday, July 11, 1975
MRS. ALICE KESLER
CARNESVILLE, Ga. - Mrs. Alice Kesler, 76, died Wednesday afternoon in an 
automobile accident.  A lifelong resident of Carnesville, she was the daughter 
of the late Asa and Susan Mabry Gillespie.   She was a member of Prospect 
Methodist Church.Her husband, J.A. Kesler, died in 1964.

Survivors include four daughters, Misses Gwen, Joan and Faye Kesler of Atlanta 
and Mrs. Ann South of Carnesville; two sons, Oliver Kesler of Toccoa and 
Gaylord Kesler of Clermont; a sister, Mrs. O.M. Coffee of Lithia Springs; three 
brothers, Carswell Gillespie and E. F. Gillespie of Carnesville and J.D. 
Gillespie of Annapolis, Md.; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Services will be conducted by the Revs. Douglas Harmon and Ralph Broome at 2 
p.m. Friday at Prospect Methodist Church


Additional Comments:
Anderson Independent-Mail
WRECKS - 5 KILLED IN CAR-TRUCK CRASH
by Philip Batson - Georgia Bureau
CARNESVILLE - Five persons were killed and one was injured here Wednesday 
afternoon, when a car and tractor-trailer collided at the intersection of 
Highway 51 and 59 near the Gold Mine Community.

The five fatalities were identified as Mrs. Alice Gillespie Kesler, 74, of 
Carnesville; Ms. Doris Kesler Mepham, 54, and Ms. Quilla Sheffield, 46, both of 
Atlanta, Mark Sheffield, 15, and Rachel Jane Sheffield, 15, both of Houston, 
Tex.   All five victims were reportedly passengers in the auto, according to 
Georgia State Patrol reports.   Ms. Sheffield was driver of the car.

David Coursey, 22, of Conyers, who was the tractor-trailer driver, was listed 
in stable condition late Wednesday night at Athens General Hospital.

State patrol troopers A. J. Pavliscsak and W.M. Remsen, who investigated the 
accident, said the wreck occurred when the tractor-trailer, traveling north on 
Highway 51, disregarded the stop sign and collided with the 1970 Oldsmobile 
Cutlass, which was traveling east on Highway 59.

The five victims apparently died instantly.  The truck driver was freed from 
the wreckage and taken to Athens General.  The state patrol officers said there 
was no visible sign of skid marks, although reports indicate the vehicles were 
not speeding.


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