Home
News
Services for Marine Corps Lance Cpl. John A. Lucente are scheduled for 11 a.m. today at Forest Lawn Cemetery on the grounds of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Nevada City.
Lucente, a 2004 Bear River High School graduate who lived in Lake of the Pines, was killed with three other Marines Nov. 16 in Ubaydi, Iraq, near the Syrian border. Lucente, 19, died after sustaining injuries after being hit by an enemy hand grenade as part of Operation Steel Curtain to fortify Iraq's borders.
He is the second person with Nevada County ties to die while on active duty since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
Services will include a procession featuring Boy and Girl Scout troops who will walk from the mortuary to the cemetery with members of the Nevada County Honor Guard.
Lucente is scheduled to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
Lucente, a 2004 Bear River High School graduate who lived in Lake of the Pines, was killed with three other Marines Nov. 16 in Ubaydi, Iraq, near the Syrian border. Lucente, 19, died after sustaining injuries after being hit by an enemy hand grenade as part of Operation Steel Curtain to fortify Iraq's borders.
He is the second person with Nevada County ties to die while on active duty since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
Services will include a procession featuring Boy and Girl Scout troops who will walk from the mortuary to the cemetery with members of the Nevada County Honor Guard.
Lucente is scheduled to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
