Strangers Unite to Ensure Veteran who Died Was Not Alone or Forgotten
FILE In this Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, Howard Tibbits of the Patriot Guard Riders takes a private moment during a military ceremony at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Mich., to inter the remains of 20 veterans found at Cantrel Funeral Home in Detroit. (Dale G.Young /Detroit News via AP)
21 Feb 2021
The pews were empty and the service brief.
Only a few had gathered to pay their last respects to John Shepherd Herbst, a 71-year-old veteran of the Vietnam War who died on Jan. 4.
He d been alone, not just in the hospital room, where he was on a ventilator for two weeks battling coronavirus and renal failure, but in the world.
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PLAINS TOWNSHIP, Pa. The Pennsylvania man caught on video ruthlessly gunning down two neighbors during a snow-shoveling dispute Monday before turning the gun on himself was an engineer and a decorated Navy veteran, according to reports.
Jeffrey Allen Spaide, 47, a Wilkes-Barre native, graduated from Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering in 2001 and went on to get his master’s degree in water resources and environmental engineering from Villanova University in 2005.
“Jeff was employed as a licensed engineer for over 20 years,” his obituary reads. “He also served in the United States Navy, working as a shipboard engineering technician.”
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The Pennsylvania man caught on video ruthlessly gunning down two neighbors during a snow-shoveling dispute Monday before turning the gun on himself was an engineer and a decorated Navy veteran.
Jeffrey Allen Spaide, 47, a Wilkes-Barre native, graduated from Wilkes University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering in 2001 and went on to get his master’s degree in water resources and environmental engineering from Villanova University in 2005. Jeff was employed as a licensed engineer for over 20 years, his obituary reads. He also served in the United States Navy, working as a shipboard engineering technician.
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