UPDATE: Address of funeral location updated from Sunday report.
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PORT ANGELES — A military memorial service for Joshua Dae Hoh Carrell drew about 400 people last week, and though his family doesn’t have an estimate on how many people will attend his hometown service, the public is invited to show support on Tuesday services in Port Angeles.
Services for Mr. Carrell will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Independent Bible Church, 116 E. Ahlvers Road.
It will be followed by Mr. Carrell’s burial, which will include full military honors, at 2 p.m. at Mount Angeles Memorial Park cemetery, 45 Monroe Road, Port Angeles.
“We want the services to be open for people attend,” his brother, Jason Carrell, said.
“It is a fairly large church so I don’t believe space will be a problem.”
Mr. Carrell, 23, a petty officer third class with the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3, died Dec. 26 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany after a battle with malaria.
A Navy Seabee, Mr. Carrell had been deployed to Monrovia, Liberia, where he contracted Falciparum malaria.
Mr. Carrell had been building a hospital for a humanitarian project, his brother said.
A procession of 27 Patriot Guard Riders on motorcycles and about 15 cars of friends and family accompanied his body into town, to Harper-Ridgeview Funeral Chapel, on Saturday when he arrived from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Another 20 Patriot Guard Riders, mostly veterans, also greeted the coffin with two columns of flags at Harper-Ridgeview.
Mr. Carrell was born in Pusan, Korea, on Aug. 26, 1986, to a college couple who chose not to marry.
He was adopted and brought to the United States by his late father, Dean Carrell, and mother, Rhonda Carrell.
After graduating from Port Angeles High School in 2005, Mr. Carrell enlisted in the Navy in 2006 and was later stationed at Port Hueneme, Calif.
During his enlistment, he served a tour in Iraq and helped build bunkers and railroad stations, his brother said.
In addition to a passion for riding his motorcycle, he also loved fishing, snowboarding, tubing and riding his family’s Jet Ski, Jason Carrell said.
Mr. Carrell is survived by his mother, Rhonda Carrell of Port Angeles; sister, Shelley Carrell of Torrence, Calif.; brother, Jason of Puyallup; grandfather, Hal Landry, and grandparents, Bub and Alice Olsen, all of Port Angeles; and godparents, Lee and Sandy Sinnes of Port Angeles; as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family.
In lieu of flowers, his family asked that donations be made in his name to the Malaria Prevention Project at www.childalive.com/helping_out.aspx or to Kitsap Bank, 716 E. Front St., Port Angeles, WA 98362.
