
VANDERGRIFT, Pa. — A North Carolina Marine killed in Iraq this week was a great father who left behind four children, his mother said.
Sgt. Lonny D. Wells, 29, of Vandergrift, died Tuesday in enemy action in Iraq’s Anbar province, a volatile area that stretches west from Baghdad to the Syrian border, the Defense Department said in a statement. He died in an explosion, his family said.
He had been in the Marine Corps for eight years and served in Kosovo, France, Spain and Germany, said his mother, Yvonne Lynn Wells. He had been in Iraq since June and was scheduled to come home in January, his family said.
Wells’ wife, Jennifer, and the couple’s 7-month-old daughter,...