Name:
Army Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus
Age:
31
From:
Thompson, Ohio
Assigned to
Company B, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident:
Army Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus died Jan. 29 at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq of injuries sustained two days earlier when a roadside improvised explosive device exploded in Khalidiyah, Iraq.
Died:
January
29, 2004
Soldier killed in Iraq remembered in service
Associated Press
The daughter of an Ohio soldier killed in Iraq clutched an American flag and wept softly at her father’s burial Saturday in northeast Ohio.
Army Staff Sgt. Sean Landrus, 31, of Thompson Township in Geauga County, was buried in the cemetery at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in his hometown as a crowd of about 100 watched in bitter cold and snow flurries.
Landrus died on Jan. 29, two days after a roadside bomb exploded as he was driving a truck near Khalidiyah.
His wife, Chris, sat mostly still and cried under a green tent as a military color guard methodically folded an American flag and handed it to her daughter. Later, a detachment of soldiers from Fort Knox,...
Occupation
Company B, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident
Army Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus died Jan. 29 at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq of injuries sustained two days earlier when a roadside improvised explosive device exploded in Khalidiyah, Iraq.