Politics & Government

Woodstock's Fallen Soldier Returns Home

Woodstock residents lined Main Street to show their support for Army Spc. Gary Lee Nelson's friends and family.

Woodstock residents, the Patriot Guard Riders, firefighters, police officers and friends and family of Army Spc. Gary Lee Nelson III gathered at McCollum Airport in Kennesaw and along Main Street in Downtown Woodstock to show their support for .

The funeral will be held Friday starting at 11 a.m.

The family will leave from the at 10:40 a.m. traveling down Main Street and then right on Arnold Mill Road.

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Mass will be held at  and burial will follow at the Georgia National Cemetery in Canton.

Guests will travel back down Arnold Mill Road continuing on Towne Lake Parkway to I-575 North. Take Exit 16 and turn left at the overpass and follow the signs to GA Highway 20. Turn left on to GA Highway 20 West and follow for approximately six miles, cross the Knox Bridge, and the cemetery entrance is on the right.

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