thedrifter
02-04-08, 08:27 PM
Marine found dead in barracks returned home
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Feb 3, 2008 13:39:27 EST
GREENWOOD, Ind. — The body of an Indiana Marine found dead at Camp Pendleton was brought back to his grieving and frustrated family this weekend.
Lance Cpl. Johnathon Goffred, 22, was found dead in his barracks at the base on Jan. 28. Military officials have not said how he died, only that they were investigating.
“He always had a smile, a kind word, a heck of a tease,” Goffred’s grandfather, Walter Sparrow, said Saturday, as the Marine’s flag-draped coffin arrived in Greenwood, Ind. “The past two or three days, certainly today, have been the hardest.”
Goffred, who joined the Marines in June 2005, returned from Iraq last year and was scheduled to redeploy later this year. He had 18 brothers and sisters, his family said.
Sparrow said his grandson loved being a Marine.
“It was his dream since he was 6 years old,” said Sparrow, who raised Goffred since birth.
Visitation for Goffred is Monday at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Greenwood, a southern suburb of Indianapolis. His funeral will be at the church Tuesday morning.
Ellie
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Feb 3, 2008 13:39:27 EST
GREENWOOD, Ind. — The body of an Indiana Marine found dead at Camp Pendleton was brought back to his grieving and frustrated family this weekend.
Lance Cpl. Johnathon Goffred, 22, was found dead in his barracks at the base on Jan. 28. Military officials have not said how he died, only that they were investigating.
“He always had a smile, a kind word, a heck of a tease,” Goffred’s grandfather, Walter Sparrow, said Saturday, as the Marine’s flag-draped coffin arrived in Greenwood, Ind. “The past two or three days, certainly today, have been the hardest.”
Goffred, who joined the Marines in June 2005, returned from Iraq last year and was scheduled to redeploy later this year. He had 18 brothers and sisters, his family said.
Sparrow said his grandson loved being a Marine.
“It was his dream since he was 6 years old,” said Sparrow, who raised Goffred since birth.
Visitation for Goffred is Monday at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Greenwood, a southern suburb of Indianapolis. His funeral will be at the church Tuesday morning.
Ellie