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Body of Marine Corps Eric Jones Arrives in Mashpee

Marine Corps Captain Eric A. Jones arrives for funeral Saturday


The body of Marine Corps Captain Eric A. Jones arrives by a private jet at Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod in Bourne, Massachusetts Wednesday (11-04-09) afternoon around 12:10 PM. Captain Jones was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan in October. Several family members and friends held a 10-minute ceremony on the tarmac. Yarmouth Police Lt. Steven Xiarhos, whose son, Nicholas, 21, a Yarmouth native and Marine who died in July in Afghanistan, hugged Kenneth and Cynthia Jones, mother and father of Eric Jones.

Wake Friday, Funeral Saturday

Visiting hours will be at the Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home, 74 Algonquin Ave., Mashpee, on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Funeral services for Captain Jones will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the John Wesley United Methodist Church, 270 Gifford St., Falmouth.

Captain Jones will be buried mmediately after at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne.

(Video and photo by David G. Curran)

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