Service to honor Avondale Westview High School student who died in car accident
by Eddi Trevizo on May. 31, 2012, under Arizona Republic News
Family and friends of Conley Livingston will gather Friday to remember the Westview High School teen who died last week of injuries suffered in a vehicle accident.
Funeral services for Livingston, 17, will be at 1 p.m. at Best Funeral Services and Chapel, 9380 W. Peoria Avenue in Peoria, said Karyn Eubanks, a spokeswoman for the Tolleson Union High School District.
Friends and officials from the Avondale school said Livingston died May 25 after he fell from a moving vehicle and injured his head. Friends and officials said he was in the vehicle with friends celebrating the end of the school year.
“He was with friends and hanging out in the car and he somehow got out of the car and hit his head,” said Trevor Bruner, 16.
Livingston died at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, said Carmelle Malkovich, senior public-relations specialist at the hospital in Phoenix. The hospital did not provide further description of his injuries.
Details about the time of death and location of the vehicle incident were unclear as of Wednesday.
Avondale fire officials did not respond to emergency calls matching the description or time of Livingston’s death, said Ron Deadman, a spokesman for the Avondale Fire Department. Police did not return calls for comment by deadline.
Livingston was a junior at Westview High School, near 107th Avenue and Indian School Road. The school is part of the Tolleson Union High School District. Livingston was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Westview High School.
Bruner said students gathered at a flag pole at the school and raised a Marine Corps flag to half-staff in honor of Livingston, who raised the flag at the school every morning.
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