DARLINGTON - Funeral services have been set for Army Spc. Jakob Roelli, a Darlington native who was killed by insurgents in Afghanistan Wednesday, Sept. 21.
A funeral service with full military honors will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 at First Baptist Church in Darlington, where Roelli was a member. Burial will be in Union Grove Cemetery in Darlington.
Roelli, 24, was a 2006 graduate of Darlington High School and attended University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh until joining the Army in 2007.
He had been a member of Special Forces for about two years and was deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year.
He, along with Spc. Robert Dyas of Nampa, Idaho, were killed while on patrol in Jakari, in the Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. Insurgents attacked their unit with small-arms fire, according to the Department of Defense.
A complete obituary appears on Page A2 of today's edition.
A funeral service with full military honors will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 at First Baptist Church in Darlington, where Roelli was a member. Burial will be in Union Grove Cemetery in Darlington.
Roelli, 24, was a 2006 graduate of Darlington High School and attended University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh until joining the Army in 2007.
He had been a member of Special Forces for about two years and was deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year.
He, along with Spc. Robert Dyas of Nampa, Idaho, were killed while on patrol in Jakari, in the Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. Insurgents attacked their unit with small-arms fire, according to the Department of Defense.
A complete obituary appears on Page A2 of today's edition.