Anchorage Daily News -- A West Point graduate killed in Iraq on Sunday and whose parents live in San Antonio will be buried in West Point National Cemetery next week.

Army 1st Lt. Thomas M. Martin, 27, died in Al Busayifi, Iraq, after his unit was attacked by insurgents, the Defense Department said.

He was with the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.

Born in Huron, S.D., he attended school in San Marcos and graduated from high school in Cabot, Ark.

Martin served in Korea after enlisting in the Army in 1998. He accepted an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 2005.

Survivors include his parents, Edmund and Candis Martin of San Antonio; three sisters, Sarah Hood and Becky Martin, both of Fayetteville, Ark., and Laura Martin of San Antonio; his fiancée, 1st Lt. Erika Noyes, currently serving as a Medevac pilot in Iraq; and his grandmother, E. Jean Martin of Huron, S.D.

The family will receive friends Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Porter Loring Mortuary North, 2102 N. Loop 1604 East at Gold Canyon Drive.

The funeral is set for Monday at University United Methodist Church, 5084 De Zavala Road, with viewing at 10 a.m. and the service at 11 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the 1st Lt. Tom Martin Memorial Scholarship, Cabot Scholarship Foundation Inc., 200 West Main St., Cabot, Ark. 72023, or to the Returning Heroes Home, 1162 E. Sonterra Blvd., San Antonio, Texas 78258.