How will thousands line route to honoring a fallen hero?
A fallen hero has come home. “Thank you, thank you so much for all everyone has done for us,” a tearful mother said. Pat Winkleman acknowledged the crowd at the close of a procession ending in Loudonville on Friday morning honoring her son, U.S. Army Spc. Damon Winkleman, who died from injuries sustained in a vehicle rollover in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, on Sunday. Thousands of people lined the streets of Loudonville and along Ohio 60 to the north. Police vehicles and vehicles filled with family, friends and military personnel brought Winkleman, a 2004 Loudonville High School graduate, to Byerly-Lindsey Funeral Home, where calling hours will be noon to 8 p.m. today. The family will be present noon to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. The convoy left Mansfield Lahm Airport about 10:20 a.m., escorted by vehicles from the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office and Loudonville Police Department, heading first to U.S. 30, east to Ohio 60 and through Hayesville and south on Ohio 60 to Loudonville. Crowds watche
LOUDONVILLE — A fallen hero has come home. “Thank you, thank you so much for all everyone has done for us,” a tearful mother said. Pat Winkleman acknowledged the crowd at the close of a procession ending in Loudonville on Friday morning honoring her son, U.S. Army Spc. Damon Winkleman, who died from injuries sustained in a vehicle rollover in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, on Sunday. Thousands of people lined the streets of Loudonville and along Ohio 60 to the north. Police vehicles and vehicles filled with family, friends and military personnel brought Winkleman, a 2004 Loudonville High School graduate, to Byerly-Lindsey Funeral Home, where calling hours will be noon to 8 p.m. today. The family will be present noon to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. The convoy left Mansfield Lahm Airport about 10:20 a.m., escorted by vehicles from the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office and Loudonville Police Department, heading first to U.S. 30, east to Ohio 60 and through Hayesville and south on Ohio 60 to Loudonville
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