Honor escort accompanies slain Lejeune Marine

Honor escort accompanies slain Lejeune Marine
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jan 25, 2008 23:10:36 EST

DAYTON, Ohio — A motorcade led by Marines, the Air Force and a volunteer group escorted the remains of a 20-year-old pregnant Marine to a local funeral home Friday.

The burned remains of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach of nearby Vandalia were found with those of her fetus earlier this month in a fire pit in the backyard of a Marine colleague’s house in Jacksonville, N.C. The colleague, Cpl. Cesar Laurean, is being sought on an indictment charging first-degree murder in Lauterbach’s death. Both were stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The motorcade accompanied Lauterbach’s body from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where a contracted airlift arranged by the military arrived Friday morning, to the Westbrock Funeral Home in Dayton about 15 miles away.

Visitation and funeral will be held at St. Christopher’s Church in Vandalia. No times had been set.

Lauterbach’s father, Victor Lauterbach, is an Air Force Reserve master sergeant in the 87th Aerial Port Squadron, part of the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson.


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uhc comment: RIP, Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach.

tragedy. After the final indignity of being burned and buried in a hole, she deserves at least this small courtesy and recognition of her military service.