One of the biggest surprises – and announcements – from Mayor Tom Henry’s State of the City address had little to do with city government at all.Funeral services have been scheduled for Sunday at Huntington North High School for a Huntington soldier who died last week.
Army Pfc. Chad Clements, 26, was killed by a roadside bomb Aug. 30 while on a mission in Afghanistan.
Clements, who was deployed Aug. 5, died when an improvised bomb tore apart a Humvee traveling through the Arghandab River Valley.
Four other soldiers died in the blast. The Arghandab River Valley is a Taliban stronghold that contains numerous land mines.
A visitation for Clements will be from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the high school auditorium, 450 MacGahan St. A service will follow at the high school.
Burial will be at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Huntington.
Clements, a 2002 graduate of Huntington North, joined the Army in February 2009 and was stationed in Afghanistan with the motor transport unit.
Memorials can be sent to Wounded Warriors, in care of McElhaney-Hart Funeral Home, 715 N. Jefferson St., Huntington, IN 46750.
