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SSG Gregory "Greg" McCoy , 26
Died: Thursday, November 09, 2006, in Iraq while serving our country.
SSG Gregory McCoy, 26, most recently of Riesel, Texas, died from injuries sustained while serving his country in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 9, 2006.
Update-12/10/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy. Please send your blessings.
Update-12/25/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy and fellow soldier Kennard. Please send your blessings.
Services were at 11 a.m. Monday Nov. 20th at the Acts Christian Fellowship, 5201 Steinbeck Bend Road, Waco, Texas with the Rev. Allen Frans officiating.
Burial with full military honors was at 1 p.m. Monday at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, 11463 State Highway 195, Killeen, 254-616-1700. The Patriot Guard Riders escorted the hearse from Waco to Killeen, and friends and family were invited to join the procession.
Visitation was from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd., Waco, Texas, 254-772-5272.
Greg was born on February 9, 1980, in Lansing, Michigan to Timothy and Carol McCoy, and was raised in Webberville. Upon completing high school, Greg entered the United States Army.
He attended basic training at Fort Jackson, Mississippi and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he trained to be a Bradley Fighting Vehicle Mechanic.
His first duty station was Fort Hood, Texas, where he was assigned to the 2-20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. This is where he met his wife, Lori Smith, of Riesel. Greg and Lori were married on December 10, 1999 in Waco.
They welcomed their first child, Logan Reilly, on July 29, 2000. After re-enlisting in the Army in the spring of 2002, Greg attended Military Police school in Fort Leonardwood, Missouri.
His next duty station moved his young family to Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was assigned to the 230th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 37th Transportation Command, 21st Theatre Support Command.
On September 23, 2003, in Landstuhl, Germany, Greg and Lori were blessed with their second son, Tyler Mason. The 230th Military Police Company deployed in March of 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
While downrange, Greg re-enlisted again for service in the Army. Upon his safe return to Germany, he and his family reported back to Fort Hood, where he was assigned to the 410th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. It was with this unit, in June 2006, that Greg returned to Iraq for his second deployment.
Greg and a fellow soldier were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
"The blast killed McCoy immediately", said Darlene Kennard, and her son died soon after at a military hospital in Baghdad. The other two passengers in the Humvee, who are believed to be civilians, were mostly uninjured.
He is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, William McCoy.
Survivors include his wife, Lori McCoy, and sons, Logan Reilly and Tyler Mason, all of Riesel, Texas; parents Timothy McCoy and Christine Ferris of Lansing, Michigan and Robert and Carol Johnson of Howell, Michigan; sister Michelle Potchynok and husband Jim of Webberville, Michigan; stepbrother Eric Johnson of Howell, Michigan; stepsister Christina Dobroczynski and husband Dan of Connecticut; paternal grandmother Doris McCoy of Williamston, Michigan; maternal grandparents George and Dortha Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; uncles Dan McCoy and wife Mary of Perry, Michigan, Nelson Monroe and wife Marie, of Lansing, Michigan, and Dennis Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; aunts Karen Jacobs and husband Dennis of East Lansing, Michigan, and Pam McCoy and Bill Zimmerman of Williamston, Michigan; father and mother-in-law Jerry and Gena Smith of Riesel, Texas; sisters-in-law Tracy Hendley of Lorena, Texas and Katie Smith of Riesel, Texas; brother-in-law Cody Smith and wife Emily of College Station, Texas; nephews Tanner Smith and Cayson Hendley, both of Lorena, Texas; nieces Krystlina Potchynok of Webberville, Michigan, Katie Dobroczynski of Connecticut and many cousins.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested that donations in SSG McCoy's name be sent to support the Central Texas Veterens Memorial Wall being constructed at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility... I welcome it."
President John F Kennedy
To place in his casket, McCoy's family from Michigan brought a bag of dirt from the back yard of the small-town home in which he grew up. It was in that back yard that his mother Carol Johnson remembers him playing games like E.T. and "War".
MICHIGAN MEMORIAL SERVICE
The Michigan memorial service for SSG McCoy was held at the Webberville High School, 313 E. Grand River, Webberville, MI. on December 3, 2006 at 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends in Michigan send donations in SSg. McCoy's name to Lest they be forgotten Memorial Fund or the VFM National Home for Children in Eaton Rapids, MI. Envelopes will be available at the memorial and throughout the community.
for sponsoring Gregs page.
SSG Gregory "Greg" McCoy , 26
Died: Thursday, November 09, 2006, in Iraq while serving our country.
SSG Gregory McCoy, 26, most recently of Riesel, Texas, died from injuries sustained while serving his country in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 9, 2006.
Update-12/10/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy. Please send your blessings.
Update-12/25/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy and fellow soldier Kennard. Please send your blessings.
Services were at 11 a.m. Monday Nov. 20th at the Acts Christian Fellowship, 5201 Steinbeck Bend Road, Waco, Texas with the Rev. Allen Frans officiating.
Burial with full military honors was at 1 p.m. Monday at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, 11463 State Highway 195, Killeen, 254-616-1700. The Patriot Guard Riders escorted the hearse from Waco to Killeen, and friends and family were invited to join the procession.
Visitation was from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd., Waco, Texas, 254-772-5272.
Greg was born on February 9, 1980, in Lansing, Michigan to Timothy and Carol McCoy, and was raised in Webberville. Upon completing high school, Greg entered the United States Army.
He attended basic training at Fort Jackson, Mississippi and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he trained to be a Bradley Fighting Vehicle Mechanic.
His first duty station was Fort Hood, Texas, where he was assigned to the 2-20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. This is where he met his wife, Lori Smith, of Riesel. Greg and Lori were married on December 10, 1999 in Waco.
They welcomed their first child, Logan Reilly, on July 29, 2000. After re-enlisting in the Army in the spring of 2002, Greg attended Military Police school in Fort Leonardwood, Missouri.
His next duty station moved his young family to Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was assigned to the 230th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 37th Transportation Command, 21st Theatre Support Command.
On September 23, 2003, in Landstuhl, Germany, Greg and Lori were blessed with their second son, Tyler Mason. The 230th Military Police Company deployed in March of 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
While downrange, Greg re-enlisted again for service in the Army. Upon his safe return to Germany, he and his family reported back to Fort Hood, where he was assigned to the 410th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. It was with this unit, in June 2006, that Greg returned to Iraq for his second deployment.
Greg and a fellow soldier were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
"The blast killed McCoy immediately", said Darlene Kennard, and her son died soon after at a military hospital in Baghdad. The other two passengers in the Humvee, who are believed to be civilians, were mostly uninjured.
He is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, William McCoy.
Survivors include his wife, Lori McCoy, and sons, Logan Reilly and Tyler Mason, all of Riesel, Texas; parents Timothy McCoy and Christine Ferris of Lansing, Michigan and Robert and Carol Johnson of Howell, Michigan; sister Michelle Potchynok and husband Jim of Webberville, Michigan; stepbrother Eric Johnson of Howell, Michigan; stepsister Christina Dobroczynski and husband Dan of Connecticut; paternal grandmother Doris McCoy of Williamston, Michigan; maternal grandparents George and Dortha Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; uncles Dan McCoy and wife Mary of Perry, Michigan, Nelson Monroe and wife Marie, of Lansing, Michigan, and Dennis Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; aunts Karen Jacobs and husband Dennis of East Lansing, Michigan, and Pam McCoy and Bill Zimmerman of Williamston, Michigan; father and mother-in-law Jerry and Gena Smith of Riesel, Texas; sisters-in-law Tracy Hendley of Lorena, Texas and Katie Smith of Riesel, Texas; brother-in-law Cody Smith and wife Emily of College Station, Texas; nephews Tanner Smith and Cayson Hendley, both of Lorena, Texas; nieces Krystlina Potchynok of Webberville, Michigan, Katie Dobroczynski of Connecticut and many cousins.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested that donations in SSG McCoy's name be sent to support the Central Texas Veterens Memorial Wall being constructed at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility... I welcome it."
President John F Kennedy
To place in his casket, McCoy's family from Michigan brought a bag of dirt from the back yard of the small-town home in which he grew up. It was in that back yard that his mother Carol Johnson remembers him playing games like E.T. and "War".
MICHIGAN MEMORIAL SERVICE
The Michigan memorial service for SSG McCoy was held at the Webberville High School, 313 E. Grand River, Webberville, MI. on December 3, 2006 at 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends in Michigan send donations in SSg. McCoy's name to Lest they be forgotten Memorial Fund or the VFM National Home for Children in Eaton Rapids, MI. Envelopes will be available at the memorial and throughout the community.
Thank you ~*Tinkerbelle*~, ~Skye~ and ~love 2 fly~
for sponsoring Gregs page.
SSG Gregory "Greg" McCoy , 26
Died: Thursday, November 09, 2006, in Iraq while serving our country.
SSG Gregory McCoy, 26, most recently of Riesel, Texas, died from injuries sustained while serving his country in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 9, 2006.
Update-12/10/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy. Please send your blessings.
Update-12/25/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy and fellow soldier Kennard. Please send your blessings.
Services were at 11 a.m. Monday Nov. 20th at the Acts Christian Fellowship, 5201 Steinbeck Bend Road, Waco, Texas with the Rev. Allen Frans officiating.
Burial with full military honors was at 1 p.m. Monday at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, 11463 State Highway 195, Killeen, 254-616-1700. The Patriot Guard Riders escorted the hearse from Waco to Killeen, and friends and family were invited to join the procession.
Visitation was from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd., Waco, Texas, 254-772-5272.
Greg was born on February 9, 1980, in Lansing, Michigan to Timothy and Carol McCoy, and was raised in Webberville. Upon completing high school, Greg entered the United States Army.
He attended basic training at Fort Jackson, Mississippi and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he trained to be a Bradley Fighting Vehicle Mechanic.
His first duty station was Fort Hood, Texas, where he was assigned to the 2-20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. This is where he met his wife, Lori Smith, of Riesel. Greg and Lori were married on December 10, 1999 in Waco.
They welcomed their first child, Logan Reilly, on July 29, 2000. After re-enlisting in the Army in the spring of 2002, Greg attended Military Police school in Fort Leonardwood, Missouri.
His next duty station moved his young family to Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was assigned to the 230th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 37th Transportation Command, 21st Theatre Support Command.
On September 23, 2003, in Landstuhl, Germany, Greg and Lori were blessed with their second son, Tyler Mason. The 230th Military Police Company deployed in March of 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
While downrange, Greg re-enlisted again for service in the Army. Upon his safe return to Germany, he and his family reported back to Fort Hood, where he was assigned to the 410th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. It was with this unit, in June 2006, that Greg returned to Iraq for his second deployment.
Greg and a fellow soldier were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
"The blast killed McCoy immediately", said Darlene Kennard, and her son died soon after at a military hospital in Baghdad. The other two passengers in the Humvee, who are believed to be civilians, were mostly uninjured.
He is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, William McCoy.
Survivors include his wife, Lori McCoy, and sons, Logan Reilly and Tyler Mason, all of Riesel, Texas; parents Timothy McCoy and Christine Ferris of Lansing, Michigan and Robert and Carol Johnson of Howell, Michigan; sister Michelle Potchynok and husband Jim of Webberville, Michigan; stepbrother Eric Johnson of Howell, Michigan; stepsister Christina Dobroczynski and husband Dan of Connecticut; paternal grandmother Doris McCoy of Williamston, Michigan; maternal grandparents George and Dortha Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; uncles Dan McCoy and wife Mary of Perry, Michigan, Nelson Monroe and wife Marie, of Lansing, Michigan, and Dennis Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; aunts Karen Jacobs and husband Dennis of East Lansing, Michigan, and Pam McCoy and Bill Zimmerman of Williamston, Michigan; father and mother-in-law Jerry and Gena Smith of Riesel, Texas; sisters-in-law Tracy Hendley of Lorena, Texas and Katie Smith of Riesel, Texas; brother-in-law Cody Smith and wife Emily of College Station, Texas; nephews Tanner Smith and Cayson Hendley, both of Lorena, Texas; nieces Krystlina Potchynok of Webberville, Michigan, Katie Dobroczynski of Connecticut and many cousins.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested that donations in SSG McCoy's name be sent to support the Central Texas Veterens Memorial Wall being constructed at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility... I welcome it."
President John F Kennedy
To place in his casket, McCoy's family from Michigan brought a bag of dirt from the back yard of the small-town home in which he grew up. It was in that back yard that his mother Carol Johnson remembers him playing games like E.T. and "War".
MICHIGAN MEMORIAL SERVICE
The Michigan memorial service for SSG McCoy was held at the Webberville High School, 313 E. Grand River, Webberville, MI. on December 3, 2006 at 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends in Michigan send donations in SSg. McCoy's name to Lest they be forgotten Memorial Fund or the VFM National Home for Children in Eaton Rapids, MI. Envelopes will be available at the memorial and throughout the community.
for sponsoring Gregs page.
SSG Gregory "Greg" McCoy , 26
Died: Thursday, November 09, 2006, in Iraq while serving our country.
SSG Gregory McCoy, 26, most recently of Riesel, Texas, died from injuries sustained while serving his country in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 9, 2006.
Update-12/10/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy. Please send your blessings.
Update-12/25/2006
Wife Lori Mccoy has uploaded a video tribute to Honor SSG Gregory Mccoy and fellow soldier Kennard. Please send your blessings.
Services were at 11 a.m. Monday Nov. 20th at the Acts Christian Fellowship, 5201 Steinbeck Bend Road, Waco, Texas with the Rev. Allen Frans officiating.
Burial with full military honors was at 1 p.m. Monday at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery, 11463 State Highway 195, Killeen, 254-616-1700. The Patriot Guard Riders escorted the hearse from Waco to Killeen, and friends and family were invited to join the procession.
Visitation was from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd., Waco, Texas, 254-772-5272.
Greg was born on February 9, 1980, in Lansing, Michigan to Timothy and Carol McCoy, and was raised in Webberville. Upon completing high school, Greg entered the United States Army.
He attended basic training at Fort Jackson, Mississippi and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he trained to be a Bradley Fighting Vehicle Mechanic.
His first duty station was Fort Hood, Texas, where he was assigned to the 2-20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. This is where he met his wife, Lori Smith, of Riesel. Greg and Lori were married on December 10, 1999 in Waco.
They welcomed their first child, Logan Reilly, on July 29, 2000. After re-enlisting in the Army in the spring of 2002, Greg attended Military Police school in Fort Leonardwood, Missouri.
His next duty station moved his young family to Kaiserslautern, Germany, where he was assigned to the 230th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 37th Transportation Command, 21st Theatre Support Command.
On September 23, 2003, in Landstuhl, Germany, Greg and Lori were blessed with their second son, Tyler Mason. The 230th Military Police Company deployed in March of 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
While downrange, Greg re-enlisted again for service in the Army. Upon his safe return to Germany, he and his family reported back to Fort Hood, where he was assigned to the 410th Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade. It was with this unit, in June 2006, that Greg returned to Iraq for his second deployment.
Greg and a fellow soldier were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle in Baghdad.
"The blast killed McCoy immediately", said Darlene Kennard, and her son died soon after at a military hospital in Baghdad. The other two passengers in the Humvee, who are believed to be civilians, were mostly uninjured.
He is preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, William McCoy.
Survivors include his wife, Lori McCoy, and sons, Logan Reilly and Tyler Mason, all of Riesel, Texas; parents Timothy McCoy and Christine Ferris of Lansing, Michigan and Robert and Carol Johnson of Howell, Michigan; sister Michelle Potchynok and husband Jim of Webberville, Michigan; stepbrother Eric Johnson of Howell, Michigan; stepsister Christina Dobroczynski and husband Dan of Connecticut; paternal grandmother Doris McCoy of Williamston, Michigan; maternal grandparents George and Dortha Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; uncles Dan McCoy and wife Mary of Perry, Michigan, Nelson Monroe and wife Marie, of Lansing, Michigan, and Dennis Monroe of Fowlerville, Michigan; aunts Karen Jacobs and husband Dennis of East Lansing, Michigan, and Pam McCoy and Bill Zimmerman of Williamston, Michigan; father and mother-in-law Jerry and Gena Smith of Riesel, Texas; sisters-in-law Tracy Hendley of Lorena, Texas and Katie Smith of Riesel, Texas; brother-in-law Cody Smith and wife Emily of College Station, Texas; nephews Tanner Smith and Cayson Hendley, both of Lorena, Texas; nieces Krystlina Potchynok of Webberville, Michigan, Katie Dobroczynski of Connecticut and many cousins.
In lieu of flowers, the family requested that donations in SSG McCoy's name be sent to support the Central Texas Veterens Memorial Wall being constructed at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility... I welcome it."
President John F Kennedy
To place in his casket, McCoy's family from Michigan brought a bag of dirt from the back yard of the small-town home in which he grew up. It was in that back yard that his mother Carol Johnson remembers him playing games like E.T. and "War".
MICHIGAN MEMORIAL SERVICE
The Michigan memorial service for SSG McCoy was held at the Webberville High School, 313 E. Grand River, Webberville, MI. on December 3, 2006 at 2 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that friends in Michigan send donations in SSg. McCoy's name to Lest they be forgotten Memorial Fund or the VFM National Home for Children in Eaton Rapids, MI. Envelopes will be available at the memorial and throughout the community.
