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Cpl. Richard Quill III

(reprinted from Tennessean.com, February 8, 2007)

Georgia Marine to be buried in Tennessee
 

ATLANTA — A funeral is scheduled Saturday in Nashville for a 22-year-old Marine corporal from Roswell, Ga., who died this month in Iraq.

The Department of Defense said Richard O. Quill III died Feb. 1 in Al Anbar province of a "non-hostile cause," but released no other details.

The department said Quill was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1 Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Quill was a graduate of Roswell High School. He was on his second tour of Iraq.

A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Calvary Assembly of God on Chamblee-Dunwoody Road. Quill, who has family in Tennessee, is to be buried Saturday following a 1 p.m. funeral at Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home in Nashville.