
SISTERSVILLE, W.Va. — A soldier killed during a mortar attack in Iraq earlier this month was remembered Feb. 10 as a devoted husband and military man who was both courageous and happy-go-lucky.
More than 50 people, including members of the Sistersville Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter, attended the funeral for Staff Sgt. Roger Clinton Turner, 37, at a funeral home in Sistersville.
Turner, a native of Elgin, Ill., who listed his hometown as Parkersburg, was injured after his sleeping area came under fire near Balad, northwest of Baghdad, and died at a combat support hospital on Feb. 1. He was a vehicle mechanic assigned to the 10th Cavalry Regiment,...