J.R. Spears Memorial Golf Tournament Saturday

June 20, 2008

spears.jpgThe Second Annual CPL J.R. Spears Memorial Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament will he held Saturday at the Solutia Golf Club.

CPL Spears of Molino was killed in action in Iraq on October 23, 2005.

Spears graduated in 2002 from Tate High School, where he played on the Aggie’s offensive line. He made the Dean’s List and lost 80 pounds during a year at Pensacola Junior College before enlisting in the Marine Corps as an EMT.

He was killed by sniper fire while serving with the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment out of 29 Palms, California, near Al-Ramadi, Iraq.

His parents, Tim and Marie Spears, are holding the golf tournament to raise money for the scholarship in their son’s honor. The entry fee for the two person team scramble is $65 per non-member and $45 for Solution Golf Club members. The top three teams will go home with trophies. A hole in one on a predetermined hole will win a 2008 Ford F150 pickup from World Ford.

“Corporal J,.R. Spears died in Iraq doing what he loved and believed in while serving his country as a proud Marine. J.R. felt it an honor to serve his his country and to serve with other proud Marines,” his parents wrote on the golf tournament flyer.

“‘In letters he wrote home, J.R. related that he wished all Americans could witness the many successes and accomplishments being achieved in Iraq by his unit and his Marines. While acutely aware of the dangers he faced daily, J.R.’s patriotism never faltered and his selflessness remained evident,” his parents said.

“Shortly before his death, J.R. told his parents that if a Marine in his unit had to die, he would rather be him than a fellow Marine who had a wife and children back home,” The Spears wrote.

For more information, email CplJRSpears@aol.com.

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