January 2007 Activity Report

January 4th / 5th 2007 William Craig Koprince, Jr.     KOPRINCE, WILLIAM CRAIG, JR. (Lance Corporal United States Marines  Age 24 of Lenoir City, passed away December 27, 2006 at 2:45 a.m. EST while serving with the Third Battalion, Second Marine Division, India Company First Platoon in Iraq. Billy was a 2001 graduate of Lenoir City High School and a member of New Life Church of the Nazarene in Oak Ridge. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Morgan Wickman, Dr. Robert Koprince and Evelyn Koprince. He is survived by his parents, William and Bernice Koprince of Lenoir City; sister, Morgan Koprince Moore and husband, Andrew of Kingston; grandmothers, Olive Wickman of Lenoir City and Anne Koprince of West Bloomfield, MI; numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Funeral services will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, January 4 at First Baptist Church in Lenoir City with Rev. Tim Fields officiating. Visitation will follow the service at the church. Family and friends will gather at 11 a.m. Friday in the Kingston Memorial Gardens for gravesside services and interment with full military honors being conferred by the United States Marine Corps. In lieu of flowers, the family ask that memorial donations be made to New Life Church of the Nazarene in Oak Ridge. Pallbearers will be Walter, Adam and Ryan Patterson, Nick Broyles, Rob Malin and Matt Fields. Click Funeral Home in Lenoir City is serving the family of Lance Corp. William Koprince, Jr. This information obtained from KnoxNews.com 12/31/06 We're assuming this information was from the Patriot Guard At Duane's request. The family of L/cpl. Koprince jr. would like for "us" ( I'm assuming the Patriot Guard ) to escort this Marine from the airport at McGhee Tyson airport in alcoa to the funeral home in Lenoir City tonight (dec.31st). They will be meeting at the waffle house on rt.129 (alcoa highway) which is loscated just before the airport on the right if you are comming in southbound from knoxville on alcoa highway. The flight is expected in by 9:25 p.m. or so and these seem to come in early more often than not, so they want to stage at 8:30 p.m. at the waffle house. So far they havent confirmed the route, but they believe they we'll be traveling 129 to 321 to Lenoir City so speeds shouldn't be too bad for big flags for those who can fly them. Information obtained from smokyMTNspory Clell went by the waffle house at 8:55pm to 9:05pm see if he could help out and their was no one in site.  At that point he assumed that LC Koprince had arrived early or that no one showed up to help out. So far from information we had:  January 4th 07 The family received friends at 6:00pm and having a service on Thursday, January 4th 07, at the First Baptist Church, 2085 Simpson Road, E. Lenoir City, TN, January 5th 07 with the Funeral following on Friday at 10:00am at Click Funeral home in Lenoir City. Directions to the Funeral Home were: http://www.clickfuneralhome.com/clickmap.htm Ladies and Gentlemen Our Chapter payed respects to one of our fallen heroes. William Craig Koprince Jr. who gave all on December 27, 2006. Services were Thursday January 4, 2007 6:00 pm EST at First Baptist Church (2085 Simpson Rd East) in Lenoir City,Tennessee Staging for Thursday was at 5:30pm and Kickstands went up at 6:00pm.  at Harley Davidson West on Lovell Road. Thursday evening's staging time was moved ahead to 5pm with kickstands up at 5:15 Clay Tumlin (865.256.8972) will be the ride captain for Thursday Those who attended the service from our TN3 Chapter were: Clay, Andy, Scott, Mary, Bruce, George, Sasha, Jeff, Debbie, Jim, Donna, Clell Funeral services were Friday January 5, 2007 at 10:00 am EST at Click Funeral Home (109 walnut Street) in Lenoir City, Tennessee Staging for Friday was at Harley Davidson West on Lovell Road at 8:45am Kickstands went up at 9:00am. Those who attended this service as well as the burial from our TN3 Chapter were: Andy, Bruce, Donna and Clell The burial was at The Kingston Memorial Gardens off from Lawnville Exit on I-40.

January 9th 07

Rolling Thunder TN3 Chapter meeting

Recon ride by a WW2 Vets house
to see if we could help him get a wheel chair ramp built

This is what we have to work with.

See Januarys report for the on going process

January 24th 07

Veterans Affairs Officer Bruce McElhaney went out to see if he could help out a Viet Nam Vet
who was currently in a hospice unit here in Knoxville suffering from Brain Cancer.

See Bruces Januarys report for the on going process

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