
EDINBURG, Texas — As a South Texas soldier’s remains were returning home, one of his former comrades from Iraq remembered their service in the first Gulf War.
Funeral services for Sgt. Christopher Ramirez were scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Edinburg, followed by a procession to Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery in McAllen.
Weslaco resident Juan Castro, who served with Ramirez in Germany in the early 1990s, hadn’t seen Ramirez since 1992 when he left military service.
Ramirez of the 3rd Infantry Division based in Fort Stewart, Ga., died last week in an ambush in Fallujah, the second of two Edinburg men to die recently in...