Classmates Mourn Friend Killed In Car Crash

FALMOUTH- Family, friends, and classmates of Jordan F. Kelly, a 2006 graduate of Falmouth High School who died in a car crash last week, mourned his death yesterday afternoon at a service that captured some of his unique character and unusual style.
Jordan’s older sister Caitlyn M. Kelly put out the word through the social networking web-site Facebook, she hoped people would “dress up crazy like Jordan.”
At the service at Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home in West Falmouth, Caitlyn herself wore a tutu, a modified men’s suit, fairy wings, and Jordan’s aviator sunglasses, according to one person who attended the service.
The estimated 150 people assembled listened to a service that included both a Latin prayer and reggae music. Many people wore necklaces, sunglasses, and sweatshirts.
Since the word spread of his death over the weekend, memories of Jordan filled the pages of Facebook.
As of Monday evening, 358 people had joined a “Rest in Peace Jordan Kelly” chat page to share memories of their friend. 
Denise Bertrand, another 2006 graduate, wrote, “He never cared about what people thought about him he just always did his own thing. He was truly a unique and amazing person.”
Others shared funny stories, memories, and inside jokes that reached back to elementary school.
For his family, including his mother, Karen Smith Kelly of Falmouth, Jordan’s spirit was captured by a surf board workshop he set up on a front porch facing the ocean, where he lived in Scarborough, Maine. In a nearly finished board she sees the long hours of quiet, painstaking, precise determination of Jordan, who crafted the board. A collection of his most recently crafted boards can be seen at an art show currently on display in Portland, Maine.  He had attended Maine College of Art for a year, but was not in school this year, a classmate said.
Jordan, 21, of Barque Drive, Hatchville, died Friday afternoon at Massachusetts General Hospital after a single-car accident on Thomas B. Landers Road just a few miles from his home.
Early Friday morning, just after 1 AM, he drove his BMW down Thomas B. Landers Road at a high rate of speed, according to police.
He lost control of the vehicle as he took a curve, struck a tree, and skidded sideways across the center line, 79 feet, until he collided with another tree in front of 681 Thomas B. Landers Road, according to the accident report.
The tree uprooted, and Jordan’s car rolled onto its side. He was partially ejected from the passenger’s side and was trapped between the vehicle and the ground. At that point, he was not breathing, according to police.
The first officer on the scene, Falmouth Police Officer James Rogers, was able to lift the vehicle off Jordan with the help of two area residents.
At that point Jordan began breathing, according to police, but “his respirations were labored and insufficient.”
Jordan was medflighted to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he died later Friday afternoon.