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Posted on Nov 10 2005
Dignitaries, family and friends will gather twice this weekend to lay Saipan’s two fallen soldiers to rest.
At 8am today, the remains of Derence W. Jack will be escorted from Nuestra Senora Dela Paz Memorial Chapel in Cabrera Center to Mt. Carmel Cathedral for viewing.
Service will be at 9am, followed by a rosary at 12 noon.
A Christian burial Mass will be held at 3pm. The interment service will follow 4pm at Mt. Carmel Cemetery.
At 7am Saturday, the remains of Wilgene Lieto will be taken from Cabrera Center to Bithen delos Remedios Church in Tanapag.
Service will begin at 8:30am, followed by a holy rosary at 9am and public viewing at 9:30am.
Viewing will be limited to the soldier’s immediate family between 10:30am and 11am. A burial Mass will take place at 11am. The interment service will be held at noon at Tanapag cemetery.
According to Vice Speaker Timothy Villagomez, the House of Representatives will be offering commemorative resolutions to the families of Jack and Lieto. The resolutions will be presented during the viewing of the remains in church, before the Mass begins.
Jack, 31, and Lieto, 28, were killed when a bomb blew up while they were on patrol in Balad, Iraq on Oct. 31.
They were both due to come home in less than four months.
The two members of Echo Company were among the U.S. Army reservists called to active duty in August 2004. They left for a one-year tour of duty in Iraq in January 2005.
Jack was a Gualo Rai resident and worked as cash department manager at Bank of Guam. He was married to Melissa Jack and had a 4-year-old daughter.
Lieto was a police officer from Tanapag. He was married to Tiara Lieto, with whom he had a 4-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter.
