Joshua C. Burrows killed by I.E.D.

A Bossier City soldier in Iraq just over a month was killed Sunday.

Pvt. Joshua Cain Burrows, 20, was killed when the vehicle he was in was hit by a roadside bomb. At least two other soldiers also were killed.

"We're working stuff out day by day," said Victoria Burrows, his widow, who learned of her husband's death Sunday and has been making arrangements for his burial.

Burrows was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, where he was assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, the Pentagon said today.

The couple lived in Killeen, Texas, until he deployed. Victoria Burrows then returned to live with her parents in Benton, said her grandfather, Bossier City restaurateur and veterans advocate Stan Kolniak.

"He had only been over five weeks," Kolniak said. "The Army sent three individuals Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m., shortly after he died."

Casualty assistance officers have been working with the family since then. Victoria Burrows said her husband's body is in Dover, Del., now, and that funeral arrangements are pending through Boone Funeral Home. She said services will be at First Baptist Bossier, though the date and time are pending return of her husband's body.

Burrows was the son of Donna O'Neal and Charlie O'Neal, of Bossier City, and the late Paul Robert Burrows, of Keithville. He was a 2005 graduate of Bossier High School, his widow said.

The couple have a son, Landon Ray Burrows, who was born April 28.

Burrows' older sister and only sibling, Rhiannon Gardner, said her brother joined the Army shortly after graduation and was dutiful.

"He liked doing the Army thing," she said. "You couldn't ever get him out of his uniform. I'm going to miss everything about him now."

Two other soldiers killed in Sunday's incident are Capt. Jason R. Hamill, 31, of New Haven, Conn., and 1st Lt. David M. Fraser, 25, whose hometown in Texas was not specified. Hamill and Fraser were assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, also out of Fort Hood.

From the Shreveport Times