Sam Kelley (December 2, 1933—November 27, 2021)

Raymond Sammy Lee (Dunn) Kelley passed away from natural causes in his home on November 27, 2021. He was born in Avery, Texas, on December 2, 1933, the son of Durden Dunn and Verma Kelley. He migrated to Oregon as a teenager where he met and married Mary Brown in 1951, and they had four children. He frequently visited De Queen, Arkansas from the early 1980s and relocated there permanently in 1998, where he lived near his father and worked building ten houses on Dunn Hill.

He is survived by the mother of his children, Mary Kelley; his children, Kim Kelley, Sandra Espinoza, Rose Mary Miller, and Valena (Beno) Warden; his adopted son, Bo Dara; his siblings, Charlene, Pat, Charlotte, Glenda, Howard, and Johnny Ward, and Rick Dunn; seventeen grandchildren; and twenty-two great grandchildren.

At the request of Mr. Sam Kelley, services will not be scheduled. Arrangements are entrusted to Chandler Funeral Home of De Queen. You may send an online condolence at www.chandlerfuneral.com.