Funerals scheduled for fallen soldiers
Funerals have been scheduled for two soldiers killed in Afghanistan this month.The family of 1st Lt. Ashley White Stumpf will receive friends from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at Marlington High School, 10450 Moulin Ave., Marlboro Township.She graduated from Marlington in 2005, and Kent State University in 2009.Her funeral will be 11 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 2643 Waterloo Road, Randolph Township. She will be buried in the church cemetery.Stumpf, 24, was assigned to the 230th Brigade Support Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina National Guard out of Goldsboro, N.C.Stumpf, who was a member of the cultural support team that works with women and children, was killed Saturday in Kandahar province. Several bombs were detonated near her position, killing her and two other soldiers.She is survived by her husband, Jason; parents, Robert and Deborah (Miller) White; twin sister Brittany White of Alliance; brother Josh (Catherine) White of Maryland; and grandparents Robert and Irene Miller of Marlboro, Ohio, and Ronald and Rose White of Gilmer, Texas.A service for Army Staff Sgt. Robert “Brian” Cowdrey, a former Portage County resident, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at La Junta High School in La Junta, Colo.Cowdrey, 39, lived in Atwater Township from 2001 to 2003, when he joined the Army.He was a flight medic with the 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.Cowdrey was killed Oct. 13 in Kunar province while on his fourth combat tour. He died from injuries suffered during a rescue mission.He leaves his wife, Kimberly; three sons; his mother, Donna Faull of Kent; and brother, Quentin Cowdrey of Amanda, Ohio.
