controller, according to TriMet. Kelly who was developmentally disabled, family members said and his mother, Bertha Kelly, were propelled into the gap between two train cars as the MAX rolled away from the Gresham City Hall station, making a three-foot plunge from the platform to the tracks.
Bertha Kelly was a retired nurse who eventually starting using a wheelchair because of severe back pain. She had three cats and a tarantula, and enjoyed solving jigsaw puzzles. Her neighbors gathered outside her apartment Sunday afternoon to leave memorials a stuffed cat, teddy bears, flowers and