
ST. LOUIS — The military will present the family of a soldier killed in Iraq with the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star at his funeral.
The funeral Mass for First Lt. Daniel Riordan of Sunset Hills will be at 10 a.m. June 30 at St. Catherine Laboure Catholic Church.
Burial will follow at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis County.
Riordan and three others were killed June 23 by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad.
The 24-year-old was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He grew up in south St. Louis County, and graduated from Vianney High School and Southeast Missouri State University.
He became an Army officer in November 2005...