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Funeral service held for Indiana airman found dead in Italy

Posted July 28, 2016 7:00 am

The Associated Press

MIDDLETOWN, Ind. (AP) - Staff Sgt. Halex Hale is being remembered as a fun-loving guy who liked to make people laugh.

A celebration of life was held Wednesday for the U.S. airman in his central Indiana hometown at Middletown Church of the Nazarene. His body was found July 12 in a northern Italy river near Aviano Air Base after he left a party and went missing.

His father, Lance Hale, said the 24-year-old airman "always liked to be the one to make everyone in the crowd laugh and pull pranks. ... He always wanted to make sure everyone was having a good time."

The (Anderson) Herald Bulletin reports (http://bit.ly/2ajJPdI) about 125 cars participated in a procession to the airman's final resting place in Mechanicsburg Cemetery, where five generations of Hale men have been buried.

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Information from: The Herald Bulletin, http://www.theheraldbulletin.com

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