Sean P Fennerty
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Age: 25
From: Corvallis, Ore.
Assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry (Airborne), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska
Incident: Army Sgt. Sean P. Fennerty died Jan. 20 in Karma, Iraq, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee.
Died: January 20, 2007
PORTLAND, Ore. — An Oregon soldier killed in Iraq was remembered Saturday as a young man loyal to his comrades, his friends and his Roman Catholic faith.
Army Sgt. Sean Patrick Fennerty was killed Jan. 20 in Anbar province while riding in a military vehicle that struck a roadside bomb.
Hundreds of his friends gathered to honor and mourn Fennerty at his funeral Mass on Saturday at the Knight Center of Jesuit High School in Beaverton.
Brig. Gen. Gregg Martin, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division, represented the Army chief of staff in awarding a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star to Fennerty posthumously at the funeral.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who tries to attend all the funerals of soldiers from the state, spoke of a young...