NBC10 -- DOYLESTOWN, Pa. -- For the second time this week, a local soldier was killed in Iraq.

First Lt. Colby J. Umbrell, who grew up in Doylestown, died Thursday in Musayyib, spokesman Capt. Richard Hyde said in a prepared statement.

One town is mourning the loss of two native sons.

Umbrell's death came four days after Travis Manion died in Iraq. The Marine lieutenant was also from Bucks County.

Umbrell was killed when an improvised explosive device blew up, his parents said.

The 26-year-old airborne ranger was a graduate of Central Bucks High School East.

His family said Umbrell died while following his dreams. He fought in combat and was helping to stock Iraqi schools with needed supplies.

"He felt even beyond serving in the military that he was serving a purpose there," Nancy Umbrell, Colby’s mother, said. "He had taken on a personal challenge. He had found this high school. He was working, bringing the kids supplies."

"He felt that was one way he could help Iraqi people. See, he wanted to help, he was doing his best, the way he did things," Mark Umbrell, Colby’s father, said.

Umbrell was an infantryman who joined the Army in June 2004 and was assigned to Fort Richardson in September 2005. He was assigned to Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division.

Two other paratroopers were injured in the bombing, Hyde said. Neither appeared to be seriously hurt and were evacuated to a medical clinic in Iraq.

Umbrell was home in April for 15 days, and his family will now cherish that last visit forever, his family said.

"He called us the day before he died," Mark Umbrell said. "We missed the call."

"I just hung around waiting to see if he’d call, but instead, they arrived," he said.

Umbrell is the second serviceman from the Bucks County area to be killed in Iraq this week. On Sunday, a sniper shot and killed 1st Lt. Marine Travis Manion, of New Britain Township.

Umbrell’s family wants others to know their son and older brother lived to help others. Even when he was home on leave, his family said he worried for the men and women he left in Iraq

"He wanted to get back to them to make sure they were OK," Casey Umbrell, Colby’s sister, said. "He felt a part of something really big -- democracy in the Middle East -- he knew he'd never see in his lifetime. It helps he was proud of what he was doing, it won’t make it easier, but it helps."