FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Governor Andy Beshear is set to honor two servicemen, who died in May while serving the country, by ordering flags to lower at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on June 13.
Beshear's office detailed that U.S. Army Private, 34-year-old Tyler Ray of Louisville, died on May 24 while on active duty. He was assigned to Company C, Second Battalion, 504th Infantry Regtiment, First Brigade Combat Team, and 82nd Airborne Division of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal, 23-year-old Joshua Guzman-Henao of Clarksville, Tenn., died on May 26 while on active duty. Guzman-Henao was stationed at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Ray's family will hold a private service, while funeral services for Guzman-Henao will take place at the Maddux-Fuqua-Hinton Funeral Home in Hopkinsville on Friday, with interment after at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West.
