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GLENDALE — The funeral service for U.S. Army Spc. Daniel Leckel will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Glendale High School.
Leckel, who was killed by enemy gunfire Wednesday in southern Baghdad, graduated from Glendale High in 2005.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski is scheduled to attend, the governor’s spokeswoman, Anna Richter Taylor said. Kulongoski has attended the funeral of every Oregon military service member killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“He feels it’s his duty as commander in chief for the state,” Richter Taylor said.
The Army on Monday provided its first public confirmation of Leckel’s death. In a short written statement, the Army said Leckel, 19, died Wednesday from enemy small arms fire.
An Army spokeswoman at Fort Riley, Kan., where Leckel was stationed, said she did not have information on when Leckel’s body would be returned to the United States. Typically, bodies are flown first to a hospital in Germany and then sent to a base in Dover, Del., before arriving in the Pacific Northwest.
Leckel’s body will be buried in the Glendale Memorial Cemetery.
Besides the Glendale funeral, a separate service will be held at a later date at Fort Riley, the Army spokeswoman, Alison Kohler said.
Leckel was an infantryman assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division out of Fort Riley.
Leckel entered the Army in January 2006 and began his service with the 1st Infantry Division four months later. He arrived in Iraq in January for what was to be an 18-month tour.
To date, 118 soldiers from Fort Riley have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Leckel, who was killed by enemy gunfire Wednesday in southern Baghdad, graduated from Glendale High in 2005.
Gov. Ted Kulongoski is scheduled to attend, the governor’s spokeswoman, Anna Richter Taylor said. Kulongoski has attended the funeral of every Oregon military service member killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“He feels it’s his duty as commander in chief for the state,” Richter Taylor said.
The Army on Monday provided its first public confirmation of Leckel’s death. In a short written statement, the Army said Leckel, 19, died Wednesday from enemy small arms fire.
An Army spokeswoman at Fort Riley, Kan., where Leckel was stationed, said she did not have information on when Leckel’s body would be returned to the United States. Typically, bodies are flown first to a hospital in Germany and then sent to a base in Dover, Del., before arriving in the Pacific Northwest.
Leckel’s body will be buried in the Glendale Memorial Cemetery.
Besides the Glendale funeral, a separate service will be held at a later date at Fort Riley, the Army spokeswoman, Alison Kohler said.
Leckel was an infantryman assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division out of Fort Riley.
Leckel entered the Army in January 2006 and began his service with the 1st Infantry Division four months later. He arrived in Iraq in January for what was to be an 18-month tour.
To date, 118 soldiers from Fort Riley have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
