Obituaries

Services Set for River Forest Student Killed in Indiana Accident

John Malone Jr., 20, died Saturday, May 4, after a car he was in rolled over while he and four friends were driving home fro Indiana University. Friends from Deerfield, La Grange and Wilmette were also injured.

Services have been set for a River Forest college student who died in a car crash Saturday on his way home from college. 

John J. Malone Jr. died Saturday, May 4, 2013. He was 20. He was ejected from the back seat of a car after a tire blew out on Interstate 65 in Indiana. Malone was driving home with four friends from the University of Indiana. 

Visitation will be 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, at , 203 S Marion St. in Oak Park. 

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The funeral Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday, May 9, at St. Giles Church, 1025 Columbian Ave. in Oak Park.

Malone, 20, was ejected from a rear seat of a Ford Explorer sport-utility vehicle about 60 miles south of Chicago on I-65 shortly before 2 p.m., police said. The Explorer rolled and landed on Malone after blowing a tire.

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The driver of the car, 20-year-old Mario Guagliardo, was also injured, and La Grange resident Michael Rende was air-lifted to a hospital in Oak Lawn with life-threatening injuries. Jason Blackman, of Wilmette, was injured as well.

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