\'\'
Home   >   News   >   Regional News   >   Branstad Orders Flags Lowered for SW Iowa Soldier

Branstad Orders Flags Lowered for SW Iowa Soldier

By on November 14, 2012

(AP)  GOV. TERRY BRANSTAD HAS ORDERED STATE OFFICES TO LOWER U.S. AND STATE FLAGS IN HONOR OF A WESTERN IOWA SOLDIER WHO WAS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN.

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD PFC. BRANDON BUTTRY, OF SHENANDOAH, DIED NOV. 5 WHILE SERVING IN KANDAHAR PROVINCE WITH THE U.S. ARMY.  THE GOVERNOR HAS ORDERED THE FLAGS LOWERED TO HALF-STAFF FROM 8 A.M. TO 5 P.M. THURSDAY.  A VISITATION IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AT 6 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN SHENANDOAH.  THE FUNERAL IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN AT 11 A.M. THURSDAY AT THE CHURCH.

BUTTRY WAS STATIONED AT JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WHICH IS SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF TACOMA, WASH.  HE WAS DEPLOYED TO AFGHANISTAN IN AUGUST.