A hero's welcome was given Friday to a Lakeville soldier who lost his life last week serving in the military in Afghanistan.

The body of U.S. Army Spc. Damon Winkleman, 23, arrived home Friday morning at Mansfield Lahm Airport.

Area residents lined the roads of the procession carrying Winkleman's casket as it was taken from Lahm Airport led by a law enforcement escort.

The procession made its way onto U.S. 30 to Ohio 60 where it would be taken to Byerly-Lindsey Funeral Home in Loudonville in southern Ashland County.

Winkleman was a 2004 graduate of Loudonville High School. A U.S. Army medic, Winkleman died Sept. 20 from injuries he received in a non-combat, vehicle rollover accident in Zabul Province.

Visitation for Spc. Winkleman will begin at noon Saturday at Byerly-Lindsey Funeral Home at 123 N. Market St. in Loudonville. Family members will be present from noon until 4 and from 6-8 p.m.

Funeral services are at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. John's Lutheran Church in McZena with the Rev. John Furno officiating. Burial with full military honors will be conducted by the 82nd Airborne Division, Firt Bragg, N.C., at Fairview Cemetery at Newkirk Road and Swartzentruber Road in Wayne County following the services. Fairview Cemetery is located about two miles northeast of St. John's Lutheran Church.

The family requests memorial contributions be made to St. John's Lutheran Church at 46 Ashland County Road 2575, Lakeville, Ohio, 44638.