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Shane Folmar
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Name: Marine Sgt. Shane Folmar
Age: 21
From: Sonora, Texas
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Sgt. Shane Folmar was killed Sept. 24 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: September 24, 2004
Marine from Sonora killed in Iraq
Associated Press
Age: 21
From: Sonora, Texas
Assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident: Marine Sgt. Shane Folmar was killed Sept. 24 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: September 24, 2004
Marine from Sonora killed in Iraq
Associated Press
SONORA — A Marine from West Texas was killed by small-arms fire in Iraq after arriving there only three weeks earlier, his father said.
Shane Folmar, 21, of Sonora was killed the morning of Sept. 24, said Wendell Folmar. He said he was informed of his son’s death by the Marines, who said they would have more details Sept. 27.
“I hope he died knowing he did serve a purpose for the good of the country,” Wendell Folmar said in the Sept. 25 editions of the San Angelo Standard-Times. “I’m sorry people are going to miss being blessed by knowing him as a person with the good-spirited nature he had.”
Folmar was a popular former football player and 2002 graduate of Sonora High...
Occupation
2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Incident
Marine Sgt. Shane Folmar was killed Sept. 24 by enemy action in Anbar province, Iraq.
Prayers & Messages
Shane Folmar
2008-04-09
May the grace of God, the love of Jesus, and the peace of the Holy Spirit be with you and your family forever.