{"id":10105,"date":"2011-09-22T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2011-09-22T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:57:18","slug":"funeral-planned-for-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10105","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Planned For Soldier Killed Overseas"},"content":{"rendered":"

U. S. Army Spc. Christophe J. Marquis<\/strong> was injured on August 27th during an attack. He and his unit were in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, when the attack took place. Spc. Marquis<\/strong> was taken to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, in Germany, where he later died from the injuries he sustained on September 4th.<\/p>\n

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, September 24th, at 11 a.m., at Springhill M. B. Church.<\/p>\n

Spc. Marquis<\/strong> moved to Tampa in July 2008 and opened a business in downtown Tampa. He had plans for his business, the 502 Sports Caf\u00e9, located in downtown Tampa.<\/p>\n

Later that same year, the Strasburg, France native met his future wife and she said it was an instant attraction. The couple married on August 31, 2009 and decided to live in Tampa. And, shortly after that, the couple learned that they were going to be parents. Their son, Christopher<\/strong>, celebrated his 2nd birthday on September 14th.<\/p>\n

He joined the U. S. Army in April and left on my birthday, April 14, 2010,\u201d Mrs. Marquis<\/strong> said. He had already served 5 years in the French military and had attained the rank of Sergeant there.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Marquis<\/strong> said she last saw her husband in March of this year before he was deployed to Afghanistan. However, she said she did talk to him on their second anniversary. She later learned that he couldn\u2019t hear her, though.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Marquis<\/strong>, 22, described her husband as an individual who enjoyed nature, long walks and extreme sports such as bungy jumping and sky diving.<\/p>\n

He was the son of Mrs. Francine Soucat<\/strong> and Joel Marquis<\/strong>. Spc. Marquis<\/strong> also had a sister and 3 brothers. His wife had met his mother and sister earlier. They were planning for her and their son to meet his father and brothers in January after he returned from Afghanistan. She met her father-in-law and brothers-in-law after her husband died.<\/p>\n

Spc. Marquis<\/strong> will be laid to rest on Monday at the Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, Florida.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Marquis<\/strong> and family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Wilson\u2019s Funeral Home, 3000 N. 29th Street, on Friday. Wilson\u2019s Funeral Home is in charge of handling arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U. S. Army Spc. Christophe J. Marquis was injured on August 27th during an attack. He and his unit were in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, when the attack took place. Spc. Marquis was taken to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, in Germany, where he later died from the injuries he sustained on September 4th. Funeral services will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}