Services for Conestoga Valley grad killed in Afghanistan Friday
  • An Army team carries the remains of Brandon Styer on Oct. 16 at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

  • Brandon Styer is seen in uniform.

By TOM MURSE
Lancaster
Published Oct 21, 2009 20:12

Services will be held in Lancaster Friday and Saturday for Brandon Styer, the 19-year-old Conestoga Valley High School graduate killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan last week.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Fred F. Groff Inc., 234 W. Orange St., his family said.

A service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church, 29 E. Walnut St. There will not be a viewing at the church.

The burial ceremony will take place afterward at Conestoga Memorial Park on Second Lock Road.

Styer's body will remain at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware until Friday, when a member of his unit will arrive to escort it back to Lancaster County, his father Terry Styer said.

Styer, a U.S. Army combat engineer, was assigned to Operation Enduring Freedom. He was sent to Iraq in March and served seven weeks there before being transferred to Afghanistan.

tmurse@lnpnews.com

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