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Roderick Jackson stood out not for his size — he was well over six 6 feet — but for the depth and breadth of his heart, mourners recalled on Saturday.
A wake for Paul Tracey, the Waltham police officer who was fatally struck by a pickup truck while working a roadside detail Dec. 6, will be held Thursday, with a funeral Mass scheduled for Friday morning, officials said.
Waltham police Officer Paul J. Tracey and National Grid worker Roderick Jackson, the two men killed when a hit-and-run driver crashed into a work detail last week, will be remembered in funeral services this week.
The National Grid employee who was killed along with a Waltham police officer in a devastating crash was recalled Thursday as a hardworking gas operations technician who was well-known here in his city of residence, as well as a former two-sport athlete in college.
The employee-owned publisher touts its successes as it turns 100.