Services to be held Saturday for Gordons

A memorial service has been planned for this Saturday, December 5, for a Clarendon couple who died in automobile accident last week.

Rev. Lance Wood will officiate the service for Wayne and Colette Gordon at Clarendon’s First Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors.

The Gordons were traveling on Thanksgiving morning when the accident occurred.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), at approximately 9:05 a.m., Courtney Dewayne Scales, 35, of Dallas was driving a 2005 Volvo Truck Tractor towing a 2008 Kentucky semi-trailer traveling southbound down a steep incline on SH 70, approximately six miles south of Pampa.

Scales was traveling at a speed that was unsafe for the conditions of the roadway and lost control. The truck and trailer slid sideways traveling across both north and southbound lanes, and into the path of a 2013 Hyundai passenger car. The Hyundai, which was traveling northbound, and driven by Jerry Wayne Gordon, Jr., 51, was then struck by the Kentucky Trailer.

Gordon and wife, Colette Hope Pavelka Gordon, 50, were both pronounced dead at the scene by Gray County Justice of the Peace Kurt Curfman.

Both the driver and the passenger were wearing their seat-belts at the time of the accident.

Scales was transported to the Pampa Regional Medical Center with a possible injury.

The road conditions were wet due to the rain and no other vehicles were involved.

Mr. Gordon was born February 6, 1964, in Hillsboro to Nancy Alice Barnes and Jerry Wayne Gordon. He had been a resident of Clarendon since 2006 and was the owner of Cartridge World in Amarillo. He loved to play golf and have fun. He was preceded in death by his father.

Mrs. Gordon was born June 22, 1965, in Waco to Robert and Evelyn Pavelka. She had been a resident of Clarendon since 2006 and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Clarendon. She was a representative for Forney Industry. She was a fun, loving person and got along with everyone she knew. She was preceded in death by her parents.

The couple is survived by two sons, David Gordon of Perryton and Aaron Gordon of Muskogee, Okla.

Mr. Gordon is also survived by his mother, Nancy Alice Gordon of McGregor, and a sister, Waynette Ditto of China Springs.

Mrs. Gordon is survived by a brother, Shannon Pavelka of West; and two sisters, Dana Hoelscher of The Colony and Pam Story of Waco.