Muncie Star Press  -- A man who moved to Muncie two years ago to be closer to his family has now lost his only son in the Iraq War.

Pfc. Jaiciae L. Pauley, 29, of Austell, Ga., son of Muncie residents Roger and Teressa Pauley, died Dec. 11 in Kirkuk, Iraq, as a result of a "non-combat related incident," according to a military press release.

The death is still being investigated by the U.S. Army, but for Roger Pauley, the manner of his son's death isn't important.

WASHINGTON —Fort Hood Pvt. Jhanner A. Tello, 29, of Los Angeles, died Thursday in Baghdad of injuries he received in what the military described Monday as a non-combat-related incident.

Circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation, the Department of Defense said Monday.

Tello was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division’s 3rd Aviation Support Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade.

Tello joined the Army in July 2005 and had been stationed at Fort Hood since November 2005.

Sgt. Ralph Anthony Webb Frietas, 23, died Tuesday in Baghdad.

The Department of Defense said the cause is unknown and is under investigation.

Frietas was assigned to the Marine Wing Support Squadron 172, Marine Wing Support Group 17, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, Japan.

The Associated Press -- Derrick Gwaltney couldn’t wait to come home from Iraq and see his wife and 2-year-old daughter — and the son the couple was expecting, his family said.

They had spoken to him on Thanksgiving, just days before he died.

“We put him on speaker phone so everyone could yell, ‘Derrick, we love you! Happy Thanksgiving!’ He kind of chuckled and laughed and said, ‘Thanks everybody.’ He said, ‘I’ll talk to you later, mom.’ That was it,” said his mother, Patricia Gwaltney.

They would bring the critters back to their mom, who would use them to make homemade gumbo.

Rogers, of White Sulphur Springs, Mont., also loved snowball fights and building snow forts, said his brother, James Westcott, a sergeant in the Marines.

In a memorial ceremony held on a chilly autumn morning in a chapel on Kelley Hill, hundreds of soldiers and civilians gathered to pay their last respects to Staff Sgt. Briand T. Williams, killed Nov. 22 in Iraq.

Williams, 25, of Sparks, Ga., died in Numaniyah at the hands of an enemy sniper while providing security for a U.S. State Department Provincial Reconstruction Team in the Wasit Province

News-Record — Staff Sgt. Ryan L. Zorn didn’t have a soldier’s temperament.

He was laid-back. Never got angry. Never drank or smoked when home in Wright on leave.

But Zorn, 35, loved his job. Whenever his dad, Myron, would bad-mouth President George W. Bush, Zorn would show a rare flash of intensity.

GLEN LYON - The wooden doors of St. Adalbert's Church stayed open to receive U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian M. Patton on the way to his final resting place.

Three rows of uniformed sailors, soldiers and prison guards lined the stone steps of the church, saluting Patton as Navy officers carried his flag-draped casket through a blustery November wind.

Inside, the choir sang "America, The Beautiful."