Funeral set for Indiana soldier killed at Fort Hood

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Funeral set for Indiana soldier killed at Fort Hood

Updated: Nov 11, 2009 12:57 PM EST

Plymouth - A soldier killed in the Fort Hood shooting rampage will be laid to rest this weekend in Plymouth, Indiana.

Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow was one of 12 soldiers killed. Decrow was a satellite communications operator who was heading to Iraq.

He's survived by his high school sweetheart and wife of 13 years, Marikay DeCrow and his 13-year-old daughter Kylah.

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11485561

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1. Update: Indiana Town Mourns Soldier Killed At Fort Hood

Indiana Town Mourns Soldier Killed At Fort Hood

Northern Indiana City Views DeCrow Procession

PLYMOUTH, Ind. -- Hundreds of people, many holding aloft small American flags, lined the main thoroughfare of a northern Indiana city Saturday, watching in silence the funeral procession of a hometown soldier killed in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting rampage.

The sounds of people chatting and children playing along Plymouth's sidewalks faded into a solemn silence as police cars, members of the military and Indiana Patriot Guard motorcyclists escorted a white hearse carrying the flag-draped coffin of Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow.

DeCrow was one of 13 soldiers killed Nov. 5 at Fort Hood when a fellow soldier allegedly opened fire at the Army post. The 32-year-old Plymouth native had been helping train soldiers on how to help new veterans with paperwork.

Several residents in his hometown of 11,000 people said they were sickened by the deadly shooting, and said it was even more tragic because a fellow soldier was the alleged gunman.

Sheila Ellabarger, who had placed two foot-high American flags in the grass at the spot where she watched the procession pass by, said her children went to school with DeCrow and his wife -- his high school sweetheart -- and she knew other members of his family.

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