Local Heroes Die in Desert Helicopter Crash
A Marine helicopter crash in Kuwait kills Capt. Ryan Beaupre and eight others, sparking nationwide mourning. Families from Mississippi to California recall pilots’ courage, while towns like St Anne Illinois honor the fallen with Masses and flag ceremonies amid war’s reach across America.
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America
Marine One
St. Anne
Ill
Ryan Beaupre
Kuwait
Beaupre
Jim Sprimont
Jay Thomas Rubin
Waterville
Maine
Brian Matthew Kennedy
Houston
Kendall Damon Waters-Bey
Baltimore
Kuwaiti
Iraq
1St Marine Expeditionary Force
Therrel S. Childers
Mississippi
Lance Cpl
Obituaries Continued A-3 Branched notices and services
Obituary items note services for Clarence William Woolridge 70 of Everman Texas and other related memorials. The list includes calls at Burns Wornal Chapel Princeton and Roselawn Gardens Wytheville Greenhills Claypool Hill and Grandview Memory Gardens with ministers and pallbearers named.
Funerals scheduled today across Virginia and West Virginia
Funeral services are set for Cozzettie Cox at 2 p m at Bailey Kirk Funeral Home Princeton with interment at Jenkins Cemetery Matoaka. Sherry Coleman Elswick holds services at 2 p m Vansant Baptist Church Vansant with burial at Greenhills Memory Gardens Claypool Hill. Elva Elizabeth Hoffman rites at 2 p m Dudley Memorial Chapel Bluefield with burial later. Stella Adkins Hurley service at 11 a m Shortridge Ramey Grundy with burial at Charles and Hurley Cemetery Paw Paw Hurley. Ruby Riffe McVey at 3 p m Grundy Church of Christ Grundy with burial Mountain Valley Memorial Park Big Rock. Shirley Ann Smith at 3 p m Franklin Street United Methodist Wytheville with burial Westend.
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Littlesburg
Crockett and
Marie Minnick Woolridge
Mr. Woolridge
Mercer County
TCU
Texas
U.S. Air Force
North Texas Steel Corporation
Woolridge
Overton United Methodist Church
Fort
Memorial
Athens Road
Princeton
Betty Shields
Roselawn Memorial
Wytheville
Orvin Thacker
Grundy Funeral Home Chapel
Grundy
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Harry Leonard
Wroaten
Pisgah United Methodist Church
Grandview Memory Gardens
Bluefield
Cozzettie Cox
Rowland H. Bailey
Bailey-Kirk
Jenkins Cemetery
Rt. 1
Matoaka
Sherry Coleman Elswick
Vansant Baptist Church
Vansant
Greenhills
Elva Elizabeth Hoffman
Dudley Memorial
Stella Adkins Hurley
Shortridge-Ramey Funeral Home
Charles and Hurley
Paw Paw
Hurley
Ruby Riffe McVey
Grundy Church of Christ
Mountain Valley Memorial Park
Big Rock
Shirley Ann Smith
Franklin Street United Methodist Church
Westend
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Chamberlain
Jay Rubin
Yuma, Ariz
Alicia
Nathan
Yuma
Rhonda
A-3
Lilly
Depot Street
Richardson Funeral Home
Clarence William
Courthouse Road
Tommy Woolridge
Emmitt Sanders
Ronnie Woolridge
Miles Matherly
Roy Lee Pennington
Danny Shorts
Keith Pennington
Ellis and
Mary Matherly
Thornton Avenue
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
The
Princeton Times
KraftMaid Cabinetry
Parkersburg
Johnston Chapel Baptist Church Hall
Ridge Road
Cellularone
Cellular One
Beckley
Oak Hill Princeton
Crossroads Mall
Fayette Landing
East River Plaza
Lewisburg
Tazewell
Bland
Cee WesLakin
Wal-Mart
Playa ‘ Ll
Poin Cvv
Jan
Ben Franklin
Cellularoneweb.com
Nick
Lee
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