Funeral services are scheduled this week for the second of two Habersham County teenagers killed in a car wreck in White County. Family and friends will lay to rest 16-year-old Walter Avery Camargo on Thursday, March 17.
Camargo and his friend, Dawson Ansley of Baldwin, died when the car Camargo was driving wrecked on Duncan Bridge Road just after midnight on March 8. State troopers say the two were traveling at a “high rate of speed,” when the car ran off the road, struck two culverts and overturned.
Both boys were former Habersham County school students. Ansley, who was also 16, was buried over the weekend. His mother remembered him as a “loving, kind, free-spirited young man” who had a smile “that would radiate and light up the entire room.”
Camargo, who went by his middle name, Avery, never met a stranger, his family says.
“Avery was an amazing son who loved everything about life, especially his family and friends,” they wrote in his obituary. “He never met a stranger and touched everyone’s life in his own special way. Avery will be greatly missed.”
Friend Alex Alanis remembers Avery as “a good kid who always tried to make everyone around him smile.”
Ribeye’s Steak House in Cornelia, where Avery’s father Pedro Camargo works, started a Go Fund Me account and in-house fundraiser to help the family with funeral expenses. As of March 14, the online fundraiser had raised $3,000 toward a $5,000 goal.
Avery Camargo is survived by his father and mother, Amanda Camargo of Clarkesville. He also leaves behind his grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.
A Spanish Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m., on March 17 at St. Marks Catholic Church in Clarkesville. It will be followed by an English funeral service at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of McGahee – Griffin and Stewart Funeral Home in Cornelia.
Dawson Zachary Ansley obituary
