
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — A helicopter pilot killed in a crash in Iraq was hailed as a hero at his funeral March 6.
U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stephen M. Wells, 29, of Egremont, Mass., was killed Feb. 25 when his helicopter crashed into the Euphrates River in Habbaniyah, Iraq.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall, pastor of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Ozark, Ala., called Wells “a hero in our eyes, a hero as a father, a hero as a husband, a son, a soldier, a pilot,” the Berkshire Eagle reported.
Wells and his wife, Tosha, were member of Marshall’s parish when he attended flight school at Fort Rucker in Alabama.
During the...