| Article: | ‘Our protector' laid to rest Beatrice residents turned out by the hundreds Friday to pay respects to one of their own as Spc. Darren Howe was buried at Evergreen Home Cemetery in Beatrice.
Citizens waving flags and holding handmade signs that said “Thank You” lined the funeral procession route as a line of cars several miles long made its way out to the cemetery on the east side of Beatrice, where soldiers from Fort Riley, Kan., conducted military graveside honors.
Howe, 21, died Nov. 3 at Brook Army Medical Center in Texas from injuries he suffered when an improvised explosive device hit the Bradley Fighting Vehicle he was driving on Oct. 17 in Samarra, Iraq. |