Toledo Blade Newspaper Feb. 1, 1991
Ohio Marine Killed in Iraqi Attack to be buried today
New Richmond, O (AP)
Family and friends of a soldier killed while fighting an Iraqi attack in Saudi Arabia will bury his body today in his hometown.
A funeral arranged by the marine corps is scheduled this afternoon for Lance Cpl. James Lumpkins at Cranston Memorial Presbyterian Church. It will be followed by burial at Watkins Hill Cemetery.
A marine unit will provide pallbearers and bugler, and soldiers will fire a salute.
Corporal Lumpkins, 22, an artillery member of the First Marine Division, was killed Jan. 29 repelling an Iraqi offensive on the Saudi town of Khafji.
A marine unit accompanied his body Thursday night through Greater Cincinnati International Airport en route to New Richmond, a town of 2,400 people about 15 miles southeast of Cincinnati along the Ohio River.
Corporal Lumpkins' mother, Gloria Davis, of New Richmond, met the body. His father is deceased.
"I knew him when he was a kid." Police Chief Harold Kennedy recalled yesterday of the slain soldier. "I knew him casually. He was a good kid. He was a bright kid, pleasant to be around, always very personable and polite."
Corporal Lumpkins joined the marines after graduating from Glen Este High School in 1988. He had lived in New Richmond, studied cosmetology in high school and had worked in several Cincinnati-area salons.
Mayor Betty Hinson ordered flags flown at half staff after Corporal Lumpkins' death.
Operation Orange Ribbon, a Cincinnati organization formed as a support group by families with members on military assignments in the Persian Gulf, said it planned to erect a flag in the corporal's honor.
Corporal Lumpkins served in the same artillery unit as his cousin, Lance Cpl. James Hamblin of Bethel, O. Ms. Davis had asked the marines to allow Corporal Hamblin to return from Saudi Arabia to accompany his cousin's body home, but the marines would not allow it.
Link to U.S. Military Death File in USFallenWarriors.com
http://www.usfallenwarriors.com/index.php?page=directory&rec=48383
Ohio Marine Killed in Iraqi Attack to be buried today
New Richmond, O (AP)
Family and friends of a soldier killed while fighting an Iraqi attack in Saudi Arabia will bury his body today in his hometown.
A funeral arranged by the marine corps is scheduled this afternoon for Lance Cpl. James Lumpkins at Cranston Memorial Presbyterian Church. It will be followed by burial at Watkins Hill Cemetery.
A marine unit will provide pallbearers and bugler, and soldiers will fire a salute.
Corporal Lumpkins, 22, an artillery member of the First Marine Division, was killed Jan. 29 repelling an Iraqi offensive on the Saudi town of Khafji.
A marine unit accompanied his body Thursday night through Greater Cincinnati International Airport en route to New Richmond, a town of 2,400 people about 15 miles southeast of Cincinnati along the Ohio River.
Corporal Lumpkins' mother, Gloria Davis, of New Richmond, met the body. His father is deceased.
"I knew him when he was a kid." Police Chief Harold Kennedy recalled yesterday of the slain soldier. "I knew him casually. He was a good kid. He was a bright kid, pleasant to be around, always very personable and polite."
Corporal Lumpkins joined the marines after graduating from Glen Este High School in 1988. He had lived in New Richmond, studied cosmetology in high school and had worked in several Cincinnati-area salons.
Mayor Betty Hinson ordered flags flown at half staff after Corporal Lumpkins' death.
Operation Orange Ribbon, a Cincinnati organization formed as a support group by families with members on military assignments in the Persian Gulf, said it planned to erect a flag in the corporal's honor.
Corporal Lumpkins served in the same artillery unit as his cousin, Lance Cpl. James Hamblin of Bethel, O. Ms. Davis had asked the marines to allow Corporal Hamblin to return from Saudi Arabia to accompany his cousin's body home, but the marines would not allow it.
Link to U.S. Military Death File in USFallenWarriors.com
http://www.usfallenwarriors.com/index.php?page=directory&rec=48383
Toledo Blade Newspaper Feb. 1, 1991
Ohio Marine Killed in Iraqi Attack to be buried today
New Richmond, O (AP)
Family and friends of a soldier killed while fighting an Iraqi attack in Saudi Arabia will bury his body today in his hometown.
A funeral arranged by the marine corps is scheduled this afternoon for Lance Cpl. James Lumpkins at Cranston Memorial Presbyterian Church. It will be followed by burial at Watkins Hill Cemetery.
A marine unit will provide pallbearers and bugler, and soldiers will fire a salute.
Corporal Lumpkins, 22, an artillery member of the First Marine Division, was killed Jan. 29 repelling an Iraqi offensive on the Saudi town of Khafji.
A marine unit accompanied his body Thursday night through Greater Cincinnati International Airport en route to New Richmond, a town of 2,400 people about 15 miles southeast of Cincinnati along the Ohio River.
Corporal Lumpkins' mother, Gloria Davis, of New Richmond, met the body. His father is deceased.
"I knew him when he was a kid." Police Chief Harold Kennedy recalled yesterday of the slain soldier. "I knew him casually. He was a good kid. He was a bright kid, pleasant to be around, always very personable and polite."
Corporal Lumpkins joined the marines after graduating from Glen Este High School in 1988. He had lived in New Richmond, studied cosmetology in high school and had worked in several Cincinnati-area salons.
Mayor Betty Hinson ordered flags flown at half staff after Corporal Lumpkins' death.
Operation Orange Ribbon, a Cincinnati organization formed as a support group by families with members on military assignments in the Persian Gulf, said it planned to erect a flag in the corporal's honor.
Corporal Lumpkins served in the same artillery unit as his cousin, Lance Cpl. James Hamblin of Bethel, O. Ms. Davis had asked the marines to allow Corporal Hamblin to return from Saudi Arabia to accompany his cousin's body home, but the marines would not allow it.
Link to U.S. Military Death File in USFallenWarriors.com
http://www.usfallenwarriors.com/index.php?page=directory&rec=48383
Ohio Marine Killed in Iraqi Attack to be buried today
New Richmond, O (AP)
Family and friends of a soldier killed while fighting an Iraqi attack in Saudi Arabia will bury his body today in his hometown.
A funeral arranged by the marine corps is scheduled this afternoon for Lance Cpl. James Lumpkins at Cranston Memorial Presbyterian Church. It will be followed by burial at Watkins Hill Cemetery.
A marine unit will provide pallbearers and bugler, and soldiers will fire a salute.
Corporal Lumpkins, 22, an artillery member of the First Marine Division, was killed Jan. 29 repelling an Iraqi offensive on the Saudi town of Khafji.
A marine unit accompanied his body Thursday night through Greater Cincinnati International Airport en route to New Richmond, a town of 2,400 people about 15 miles southeast of Cincinnati along the Ohio River.
Corporal Lumpkins' mother, Gloria Davis, of New Richmond, met the body. His father is deceased.
"I knew him when he was a kid." Police Chief Harold Kennedy recalled yesterday of the slain soldier. "I knew him casually. He was a good kid. He was a bright kid, pleasant to be around, always very personable and polite."
Corporal Lumpkins joined the marines after graduating from Glen Este High School in 1988. He had lived in New Richmond, studied cosmetology in high school and had worked in several Cincinnati-area salons.
Mayor Betty Hinson ordered flags flown at half staff after Corporal Lumpkins' death.
Operation Orange Ribbon, a Cincinnati organization formed as a support group by families with members on military assignments in the Persian Gulf, said it planned to erect a flag in the corporal's honor.
Corporal Lumpkins served in the same artillery unit as his cousin, Lance Cpl. James Hamblin of Bethel, O. Ms. Davis had asked the marines to allow Corporal Hamblin to return from Saudi Arabia to accompany his cousin's body home, but the marines would not allow it.
Link to U.S. Military Death File in USFallenWarriors.com
http://www.usfallenwarriors.com/index.php?page=directory&rec=48383
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