Tyler L. Creamean
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Age: 21
From: Jacksonville, Ark.
Assigned to the 73rd Engineer Company, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.
Incident: Army Spc. Tyler L. Creamean was killed May 22 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee in Mosul, Iraq. Also
Died: May 22, 2005
Roadside bomb kills Fort Lewis soldier
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK — A memorial service is planned Thursday at Fort Lewis, Wash., to honor a Jacksonville, Ark., soldier and two other members of his brigade killed in Iraq.
Spc. Tyler Loren Creamean, 21, and two other Stryker Brigade soldiers died Sunday. Creamean and Lt. Aaron Seesan of Massillon, Ohio, were killed by a roadside bomb near their vehicle. Sgt. Benjamin Morton of Wright, Kan., was killed when his patrol came under attack.
Creamean’s mother, Rebecca Callaway-Hout of Jacksonville, said her son was about to re-enlist in the Army so his soldier wife would not be alone in Iraq.
“He loved people from all walks of life,” Callaway-Hout said. “Even at the end, his colonel said he was yelling for the medics for the other guy.”
Creamean was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and attended school in Jacksonville. He married on Feb. 24, his 21st birthday, and...