PEDESTRIAN IS KILLED
Man Walking Along Highway Struck Near Tracy.

   A man was injured fatally last night when he was struck by a motor car on M-92, one mile west of Tracy in Platte County.
   The man was identified by an Army discharge and a scrap of paper he carried as Walter A. Kelley of Leavenworth.
   The accident was reported by Jerry Rawlings, 18, of Platte City, driver of the motor car. He said that the impact occurred as he was meeting an oncoming car.
   Rawlings said that the man was walking on the pavement on the right side of the road apparently going toward Tracy. Rawlings drove to Platte City to report the accident.
   Roland Giffey, Platte County coroner, said that the body had been thrown about 50 feet from the impact and lay on the shoulder of the highway about 10 feet from the pavement . The accident occurred about 8:30 o'clock.

[The Kansas City Times, Kansas City, MO, 05 Oct 1962, Fri, Page 6]

Burial record for Walter A. Kelley in Barker Cemetery, Odessa (Lafayette county), Missouri.

Walter registered for the draft in Coffeyville, Kansas on 16 October 1940 and was inducted into the Army at Fort Leavenworth, KS; on 5 October 1942.

On 26 October 1942, Pvt Kelley was transferred from the Reception Center, Ft Leavenworth, KS to Company A, 508th PIR.

He was transferred to Company H on 27 November 1942.  This unusual transfer between a 1st Battalion company and a company subordinate to he 3rd battalion probably as due to the receiving company still filling its ranks.

But on 3 December 1942, Pvt Kelley was transferred to the Casual Company, Cp Blanding FL.

He was reassigned to an infantry unit. Based on his burial record, his last unit of record was the "Sup Det, Sup Div, Key West Barracks, FL".  Whether the abbreviation of "Sup" stood for Support or Supply is unknown.

He was discharged on 22 May 1943 and on 20 September 1962 he married Jessie May Collins in Lexington, MO.