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Avon Lake mourns soldier killed in Iraq

by WKSU's KAREN SCHAEFER


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A Northeast Ohio soldier was buried today in Avon Lake. Friends and teachers remember Captain Michael J. Medders as a young man equally at home on the playing field, the classroom and the choir.
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An honor guard greeted mourners at the wake for Army Captain Michael J. Medders, Jr. at Avon Lake High School.  Medders was a high school football star
Thousands of American flags lined the streets of Avon Lake in honor of Michael Medders, son of Elyria's police chief.  Medders was the first soldier from Avon Lake to die in Iraq
Michael Medders sang in the Avon Lake High School choir for four years, shown here in two photos from music teacher William Zurkey's archives

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our thoughts and prayers go out to the Meddors family.your son sacrifice and your family sacrifice will forever be honered.


Posted by: mike beadle (canton) on October 5, 2008 8:22AM
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