This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7776 Message Board Post: Fatal Accident Blakesley Smith Jr. 32, stationed at Edwards Air Force Base died as a result of a non collision accident after rolling his car: a mile east of Rosamond on the Rosamond-Edwards road at 2 a.m. Saturday. O'Donnell ambulance took him to the Mojave Medical Center where he died at 11:30 p.m. Funeral services were held in the O'Donnell Funeral Home Thursday, October 22, with Rev. Stanley H. Addison officiating. A veteran of the Air Force in World War II, he is survived by his wife, Barbara Louise, and a daughter Patricia Lynne, 5, both of Edwards. Posted by East Kern Genealogical Society Courtesy of Mojave Desert News California City, Kern, CA Published: 22 Oct 1953